Cannot get CURRENCY:EUR price since Monday

Richard Ullger rullger at ntlworld.com
Sat May 16 16:04:11 EDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 01:40 -0400, Mike Alexander wrote:

> The currency module of Finance::Quote gets its data by screen scraping 
> a page at a URL starting with 
> <http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&submit=Convert>. 
> Yahoo recently changed this page so the screen scraping doesn't work 
> (and can't easily be made to work).  The easy solution is to use the 
> existing Finance::Quote Yahoo module which already knows how to get 
> currency quotes.  I've got a patch to Quote.pm which does this which 
> I'll try to attach to this message.  It seems to fix the problem for me.
> 
>      Mike

Thanks Mike, works for me too.

Richard.
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