Problems getting quotes for funds

[Derek Atkins]

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

Quoting Paul Stansell <ps at ph.ed.ac.uk>:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I wondered if anyone could shed light on any recent changes which may have
> stopped the "Tools: Price Editor: Get Quotes" for Funds from working in
> gnucash-2.2.3.
>
> Shortly after 29th Jan 2008 the automatic price retrievals started failing
> for all my funds.
>
> The error message is, for example,
>
>   Unable to retrieve quote for these items: FUND MFEXPG.L
>
> where MFEXPG.L is an example of a fund symbol that used to work okay with
> "Tool: Security Editor: Fund: Type of quote source" set to "Single:
> Yahoo".  I've tried changing settings to other sources, but with no luck.
> I've also tried changing the fund symbol, for example, using
> GB0003243465GBP, but that did help either.
>
> If I choose "Yahoo Europe" I get the error message "There was an unknown
> error while retrieving the price quotes."
>
> In the days of gnucash-1.8.12-0.fc4 there used to be a perl script called
> dump-finance-quote which could be run on the command line, eg,
>
>   dump-finance-quote yahoo MFEXPG.L
>
> I tried running this command on an old fedora4 system, but it no-longer
> works either, or at least, not for this fund symbol for which it used to
> work.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Paul Stansell
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