ERROR: 'There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes.'

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Thu, January 12, 2012 4:20 pm, Deane Yamane wrote:
> Derek,
>
> I ran gnc-fq-dump. All the sources I need (Yahoo & ?Fidelity) are on it. I
> even tried putting 'yahoo' as a parameter. The same exact list is shown.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Not supplying the correct parameters (source and symbol):

gnc-fq-dump yahoo CSCO
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: CSCO                 <=== required
      date: 01/12/2012           <=== required
  currency: USD                  <=== required
      last: 19.15                <=\
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price: 19.15                <=/
  timezone:                      <=== optional


-derek

>
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Deane,
>>
>> Deane Yamane <deane.yamane at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> MAC OSX V10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). IT USED TO WORK UNTIL the End  of
>>> December. ... Oh David T. it's solid. And restaring the Mac fails.
>>
>> Is it possible that the quote source changed their website such that
>> F::Q can't scrape it anymore?  This seems to happen more often than you
>> would think.
>>
>> Try running gnc-fq-dump to see if it's providing valid data?
>>
>> -derek
>>
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>> -derek
>>
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