No price updates anymore

[John Ralls]

On Feb 14, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 13 February 2014 at 22:36, Mike Alexander said:
> 
>> --On February 12, 2014 5:50:20 PM -0800 liberace 
>> <philsdutchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Since yesterday I cant update the prices anymore. The error message is
>>> "*There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes*.
>> 
>> Yahoo changed URL for their quote service, or more likely turned off the
>> old one since the new one doesn't seem all that new.  The attached patch
>> seem to fix the problem.
> 
> ... for the USA source. Yahoo_Europe was already in that form (but the 
> URL starts uk.finance.yahoo.com).
> 
> Some ferreting around on the uk.finance.yahoo.com website indicates that 
> (for the yahoo_europe quote-source) the URL should start 
> download.finance.yahoo.com - and that now works for me.
> 

Which is the same as the one for Yahoo USA, so Erik Colson, the F::Q maintainer, intends to remove the Yahoo::Europe module. I've asked him if he can keep yahoo_europe as an alias somehow for backwards compatibility.

Regards,
John Ralls