problems retrieving Australian Stock quote prices

[Tom Cameron]

David,

Thanks for the reply

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 14:37, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> 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.


So what is correct?


>  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.
>>
> Then Ive tried the code itself as cba, CBA, cba.ax, CBA.ax, CBA.AU,
>
> What version of finance::quote are you using?


How would I work that out?

I should note that I have utterly no knowledge of how this all works so if
you were to let me understand more about how it is working and where to get
debug info I may be able to work it out myself, but I have no idea where to
start at the moment.


>  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
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>
>
>
>
>


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