Problems with Downloading Stock Prices

[Derek Atkins]

Hmm.. Sounds like your F::Q is broken.  This works for me on my machine:

gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: RHT                  <=== required
  [snip]

What version of F::Q?

-derek

Quoting Richard Geddes <rich.geddes at verizon.net>:

> Not sure if I have the correct syntax... here's the results:
>
> ------------------
> $0> gnc-fq-dump yahoo RHT AMD
> No results found for stock RHT.
> =====
>
> No results found for stock AMD.
> --------------------
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Richard Geddes <rich.geddes at verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> I've been using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several
>>> months.  Set up some stock investments and would download the latest
>>> stock prices with Tools -> Price Editor -> Get Quotes.  This worked ok
>>> until about a week ago.  Now I get a message "There was an unknown error
>>> while retrieving the price quotes."
>>>
>>> Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem?
>>>
>>
>> What happens if you run gnc-fq-dump manually?  Does it actually
>> get your data?
>>
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Richard
>>>
>>
>>
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>>>
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>
>



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