Problems with getting online quotes

[David Reiser]

On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:34 AM, wtanx wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem with getting online quotes with Yahoo of this mutual
> fund: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IE0030618114EUR
>
> The error message I get is 'Impossible to get online quotes
> for ...' (I'm not sure this is the exact english message because I use
> italian translation of Gnucash)
>
> On the other hand, the functionality works perfectly when getting  
> online
> quotes of stocks (i.e. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ENEL.MI ).
>
> Thanks for any suggestion.
>
>
> Sandro Minello
>
At the moment, finance-quote doesn't support retrieval of mutual fund  
quotes from yahoo Europe (since they switched from ticker symbol-like  
codes to ISIN-based codes).

If you're using finance-quote 1.15 and want to try a patch I wrote for  
this situation, see
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-November/027224.html

If you try the patch, you'll definitely want to make sure finance- 
quote retrieves the right information. Most of the people who have  
successfully used the patch are retrieving quotes for British funds  
(zzzzGBP). There are some funds that have the same base ISIN, but can  
end in either a national currency or EUR. I'm not positive that the  
retrieval works for all those cases.

Dave
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David Reiser
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