problems retrieving Australian Stock quote prices

[David Reiser]

On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Tom Cameron wrote:

> I have spent a few hours pulling my hair out on this one. Im trying  
> to track
> some stocks on the Australian Stock Exchange such as CBA (
> http://au.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CBA.AX&x=21&y=12 ). But I dont seem  
> to be
> able to work it out.
>
> Firstly I cant work out what the "Type" of the security should be.  
> Ive tired
> ASX, AX, AU and various others and Im not sure if it makes any  
> difference or
> not.

Type doesn't matter.

> Then Ive tried the code itself as cba, CBA, cba.ax, CBA.ax, CBA.AU,
> CBA.ASX and almost every combination I can imagine. And finally for  
> the
> source of the quote Ive tried Yahoo, Yahoo Australia, ASX,  
> Austraila, and
> various others.

What version of finance::quote are you using?
>
> And every time I keep getting "Unable to retrieve quotes for these  
> items
> XXXX".
>
> Im on Ubuntu and I just installed GnuCash using apt-get install so Im
> assuming all dependancies are there. gnucash 2.2.6 r17427 2008-10-02
>
> Ive tried the command line gnc-fq-dump with general success,  
> particularly
> "gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_australia CBA" or "gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo  
> CBA.AX" so Im
> assuming that means something is right about my system.
>
> I have to confess Im very new to GnuCash so its highly likely Ive  
> just done
> someting totally stupid in the setup.
>
> Tom
>

Using gnucash 2.2.9 and finance::quote 1.15, I can retrieve quotes for  
CBA from Yahoo_australia.

I have mucked with my finance::quote, but I don't believe it affects  
yahoo_australia.

Dave
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