Price files

hledger-flow looks for price files to include in each yearly include file.

For example, the presence of a file named ${BASE}/prices/2020/prices.journal will result in some extra include file magic.

The rest of this section assumes you’ll have a file named prices/2020/prices.journal which contains price data for the year 2020. The prices directory should be right at the top of your hledger-flow base directory, next to the import directory.

hledger-flow does not care how the price files got there, it only cares that you should have a separate file per year, and that it follows the above naming convention.

Here is an example script which downloads prices and follows the naming convention: https://gist.github.com/apauley/398fa031c202733959af76b3b8ce8197

After running an import with available price files you’ll see a line has been added to import/2020-include.journal:

include ../prices/2020/prices.journal