Problems getting quotes for funds

[Paolo Di Giacomo]

Hi Dave,

It would be possible to have this patch? I am experiencing the problem
you describe, and I tried to apply the modifications you describe, but
I am probably missing something somewere... I am using GnuCash 2.2.4
for Windows

Thanks a lot

Paolo

On Mar 12, 2008, at 7:16 PM, David Reiser wrote:

>Does two ugly hacks equal a fix?
>
>When I sent out the first hack, I assumed that success of gnc-fq-dump
>= success for Get Quotes inside gnucash. Oops. It turns out that
>gnucash wasn't totally silent, just mumbling in the background about
>no currency being assigned. When I accommodated yahoo_europe's new
>timespec field, I didn't bother matching the number of elements in
>@FIELDS and @FIELD_ENCODING lists. gnc-fq-dump didn't have a problem
>with that, but gnucash does. My second hack is just to add a second
>request for currency at the end of the encoding list. I have tested
>this inside gnucash, and it does work for European funds identified by
>isin.
>
>REMEMBER: this hack definitely breaks Yahoo US (and most likely Yahoo
>Asia and Australia too). But if you can get all the rest of your
>quotes from either Yahoo_Europe or non-Yahoo sources, then it can
>retrieve quotes for isin identified funds. Instead of MFEXPG.L, you'll
>have to enter GB0003243465GBP as the 'ticker'.
>
>This 'fix' is still ugly almost beyond belief, but it might be useful
>to some. There is a different patch in the Finance-Quote bug tracker,
>but it breaks non-European Yahoos as well.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>On Mar 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, David Reiser wrote:
>
>> I'll see if I can find a straightforward fix. Since gnc-fq-dump says
>> it can use one of 3 prices, maybe there is an easy way to branch the
>> gnucash code on the gnucash side of the fq fetch. If it isn't
>> relatively straightforward, it may be quite a while before someone
>> else can look for a fix.
>>
>> Dave
>> On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Paul Stansell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear Derek,
>>>
>>> Recently, you helped me and others by providing a patch to deal with
>>> fixing gnc-fq-dump so that it could get quotes from yahoo_europe
>>> after
>>> they made changes to their stock and funds codes.
>>>
>>> Well, the patch does fix gnc-fq-dump so that I can get the price of
>>> a fund
>>> from the command line, eg "gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe
>>> GB0003243465GBP", but
>>> I've just noticed that when I retrieve quotes for funds using
>>> gnucash's
>>> "Price Editor -> Get Quotes" the current quotes are not being stored
>>> or
>>> updated, and are not available to gnucash. Stock prices, however,
>>> are
>>> being updated and are available. Also, unlike the case before the
>>> patch
>>> was suppled, there are no error messages after the "Price Editor ->
>>> Get
>>> Quotes" attempt to indicate that getting the prices of any of the
>>> funds
>>> has failed.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Paul Stansell
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> The command was renamed to gnc-fq-dump. Using your example:
>>>>
>>>> gnc-fq-dump yahoo MFEXPG.L
>>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>> symbol: MFEXPG.L <=== required
>>>> date: ** missing ** <=== required
>>>> currency: ** missing ** <=== required
>>>> last: 0.00 <=\
>>>> nav: <=== one of these
>>>> price: <=/
>>>> timezone: <=== optional
>>>>
>>>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe Yahoo changed their site and F::Q can't parse it?
>>>>
>>>> -derek
>>>>
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