NAME

fqdb - Manage quote databases

SYNOPSIS

fqdb [options] command

DESCRIPTION

This script is the command-line interface to the Finance::QuoteDB module.

COMMANDS

  createdb      Creates a new database
  addstock      Add stocks to database
  delstock      Remove stocks from a database
  updatedb      Updates a database
  backpopulate  Retrieves history quotes and put them in the database
  dumpquotes    Retrieves and outputs quotes from the database
  dumpstocks    Retrieves and outputs stock symbols and info from the database
  GTWriteConfig Writes a config file for usage with Geniustrader
  addYahooStocks Retrieves and adds all yahoo known symbols for specified exchanges

OPTIONS

  -h --help     Shows help
  --dsn         Which database to use. Defaults to 'dbi:SQLite:fqdb.db'.
                format = 'dbi:$dbType:dbname=$dbname;host=$host;port=$port'
  --dsnuser     Username if needed for dsn
  --dsnpassword Password if needed for dsn
  --market      Market from which stocks should be treated. See Finance::Quote submodules
  --exchanges   Exchanges as the exchange set by Yahoo. NYQ for NYSE, PAR for PARIS etc, comma separated list
  --searchlist  List of strings used to search symbols on yahoo's site
  --stocks      Stock list (comma separated) use [] to specify your own ID
                i.e. GOOG[GOOGLE]
  --startdate   startdate for usage with backpopulate and dumpquotes defaults to '1900-01-01'
  --enddate     enddate for usage with backpopulate and dumpquotes defaults to '' (today)
  --overwrite   indicates if updates should overwrite previously saved data.
                Defaults to yes. Only works for backpopulate for now...
  --configFile  Name of file to create as configuration file.
  -v --version  Returns version number of Finance::QuoteDB

EXAMPLES

fqdb createdb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:quotes.db'

fqdb createdb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:dbname=quotes.db'

Creates a new database in the current directory called quotes.db of type SQLite.

fqdb updatedb --dsn='dbi:SQLite:quotes.db'

Updates the database quotes.db with new quotes if available.

license

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Erik Colson, all rights reserved.

This file is part of Finance::QuoteDB.

Finance::QuoteDB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance::QuoteDB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance::QuoteDB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.