online fund retrieval

[David Reiser]

It's a Finance::Quote issue, not a gnucash issue. So whether it's  
fixed or not has nothing to do with the gnucash 2.4 series.

Dave
On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Holliday, Ian E wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've run into the problem identified by several others about  
> problems getting mutual fund prices from online sources like Yahoo.  
> I think stock retrieval works OK, but many (most?) small investors  
> like me have the majority of their investments in mutual funds. I'm  
> using 2.2.9 on Windows XP. David Reiser has supplied a patch for  
> finance::quote 1.15 that I guess I could try, but I'm not competent  
> using python or anything much else these days - is this the most  
> practical solution still or will the 2.4.x series have this feature  
> covered?
>
> It seems the problem is Yahoo occasionally modifies the page layout  
> making retrieval of item information break in gnucash. I guess this  
> will be an on-going problem. One respondent to posts on this topic  
> suggested that a comprehensive solution would never be possible  
> because there is no incentive for the data suppliers to adhere to a  
> particular standard. In which case perhaps a longer term practical  
> solution would be to provide support for manual import from CSV  
> datafiles containing fund information composed by users from  
> portfolios outside gnucash. For example you can set up a portfolio  
> system on the FT website for free and export to CSV. Gnucash users  
> would merely have to tag columns in gnucash, as when importing  
> transaction to an account. I imagine the existing import tool could  
> already be the framework for a program to do this. This solution  
> would mean there would be no need for maintaining the web page  
> screen-scaper information, or whatever it is that keeps breaking.
>
> Ian
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