Problems getting quotes for funds

[Richard Ullger]

This issue has just been raised in another thread.

When you do a symbol lookup on yahoo now it returns a symbol made up of 
the isin code and iso currency code, such as GB0003243465GBP, whereas 
before it returned a symbol such as MFEXPG.L. Even Yahoo's site 
complains, if you display the page for the fund, the area that displayed 
the chart now displays the text 'Invalid Ticker'.

Regards,

Richard.

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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