Finance::Quote does not work on europe stocks

[Derek Atkins]

Juan,

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Dear Fred,
>
> I have subscribed to this mailing list (I formerly posted through gmane)
> because (i) this extremely low quality response deserves an answer and (ii)
> because having found the problem (I am not as stupid as you seem
> to presuppose in your email) this should be documented somewhere.
>
> You seem to imply that I did not even bother to read what the program
> output. What I was reporting is a functionality that does not work in
> gnucash any more but that was working one year and a half before. So do not
> treat me as a dumb user that does not bother to read error messages.
>
> Instead of producing a canned response, at least I took the trouble to
> debug gnucash and FInance Quote, i) having to learn how to build and debug
> perl packages, ii) going through your code, iii) inspecting what modules
> gnucash calls and iv) producing a solution to the problem (
> http://goo.gl/WaQwV).
>
> The problem is that Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Europe does not work any more.
> It is not that tickets are wrong (which they are not, if you had taken the
> trouble to look at http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=alm.mc&ql=1 before
> answering), but that both Gnucash and Finance::Quote are cheating on the
> user offering something that is broken, for Yahoo Europe no longer outputs
> CSV for the tickets that denote many of the Spanish or German stocks, the
> ones I bothered to check
>
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe
> ALM
> .MC
>
> Now, it turns out that in the mean time people have produced other sources
> for specific countries and, while the Yahoo module is broken, Europe source
> works because it checks other stock markets. Being in Spain, none of the
> sources that Gnucash/Finance::Quote offered worked, so I cooked one
> http://goo.gl/WaQwV and submitted to the library maintainers.
>
> So, did I or did I not read the error message. Have a nice weekend.
>
> Juanjo

Thank you for tracking down the issue.  Could you please forward your
patch(es) to the appropriate bug tracker?  In particular, could you send
your patch to the Finance::Quote tracker so it'll be considered for the
next F::Q release?

Thank you!

-derek

> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Fred Bone <webmaster at eacr.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 7 Mar 2013 at 23:42, Juanjo said:
>>
>> > If I try with gnc-fq-dump on OS X as
>> >
>> > gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_europe sl.l
>> >
>> > I get information, but when I try with a stock from Spain or Germany, it
>> > does not
>> >
>> > gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_europe alm.mc
>> >
>> > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>> >     symbol: ALM.MC               <=== required
>> >       date: ** missing **        <=== required
>> >   currency: =vn                  <=== required
>> >       last: 0.00                 <=\
>> >        nav:                      <=== one of these
>> >      price:                      <=/
>> >   timezone:                      <=== optional
>>
>> If you take the trouble to read what follows the part you have quoted,
>> you will see
>>
>> ALM.MC       errormsg: Stock lookup failed
>>
>> which seems to explain the problem: your stock symbol is not recognised
>> by the quote source you have chosen to use. Either use a different quote
>> source, or correct your stock symbol.
>> Fred Bone
>> EACR Webmaster
>>
>>
>>

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