Problems with Downloading Stock Prices

[Derek Atkins]

Then I'm afraid I have no idea why it's failing for you and
working for me, unless we're hitting different yahoo sites
and mine is working and yours is not.

-derek

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

> OK... looks like 1.13 as well
>
> ------------
> $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")
> -------------
>
> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -derek
>>>>>>
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