problems retrieving Australian Stock quote prices

[Tom Cameron]

OK Ive worked out finance::quote is version 1.13-3

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 14:43, Tom Cameron <tom at mooball.com> wrote:

> 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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