Problems with Downloading Stock Prices

Richard Geddes rich.geddes at verizon.net
Sun Oct 7 14:37:39 EDT 2007


OK... looks like 1.13 as well

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$0> gnc-fq-check
("1.13" "tsp" "vwd" "financecanada" "yahoo_nz" "australia" "usa"
"troweprice" "france" "amfiindia" "nasdaq" "usfedbonds"
"bmonesbittburns" "aex_options" "yahoo_asia" "troweprice_direct"
"tiaacref" "canada" "yahoo" "seb_funds" "yahoo_brasil" "fidelity"
"aiahk" "greece" "dwsfunds" "yahoo_australia" "unionfunds" "finland"
"lerevenu" "asia" "indiamutual" "hex" "brasil" "asegr" "deka" "nyse"
"canadamutual" "fidelity_direct" "asx" "tdwaterhouse" "fool" "trustnet"
"ftportfolios_direct" "uk_unit_trusts" "dutch" "ftportfolios" "tdefunds"
"nzx" "za" "aex_futures" "fundlibrary" "stockhousecanada_fund" "aex"
"yahoo_europe" "nz" "vanguard" "bourso" "europe" "platinum" "maninv")
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Derek Atkins wrote:
> Ummm...   Run gnc-fq-check and it'll print the version..
> I have 1.13
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Richard Geddes <rich.geddes at verizon.net>:
>
>> How do I find the version of F::Q?
>>
>> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> 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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