Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Richard Lindgren]

Erik, it sounds like you're a programmer that you are able to proceed and
have success. I am having GREAT difficulty in retrieving my stock prices
like I was able to do before. Making a long story short, my computer
crashed and window 7 was re-installed by my computer guy. Now I can no
longer get my stock prices.

I have downloaded the latest version of GnuCash and have installed it as
the System Administrator. I then went into the GnuCash folder and ran the
utility to download prices. When I request the stock price it comes back
with "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:" . I could sure use some
help here. I am NOT a programmer and anything I do needs to be explained as
simply as possible. Thanks.

Richard

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:

>
> On 23 Jun 2014, at 15:07, Tim Johnson <timnjane at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi Erik,
> >
> > Definitely getting there!
>
> Hi Tim !
>
> Great to read you.
>
> > I installed using Synaptic "openssl" and "libopenssl-dev" (the other
> options you gave were not in the package list - I hope that's OK).
>
> yep, you did the right thing
>
> > I then ran cpan Test::Inter, and finally gnc-fq-update.
>
> Cool! you got it working then :)
>
> > The dialog box in GnuCash then showed that Finance::Quote appeared to be
> installed properly, BUT I can't get quotes out yet.  I tries various
> combinations of ISIN and SEDOL codes for the stocks (see below), with
> variations of data sources, but still drew a blank (see below).  If I open
> the Yahoo Finance webpage, and type in any of the four ISIN codes in the
> search box at the top, it finds the correct stock with price and
> performance data so some of this is correct.
>
> Auch :/ ISIN codes are _not_ supported with yahoo_europe. But!...
> You can get them through the yahoo_json module! However I have no idea
> which item you should choose in the Gnucash list. Maybe a Gnucash developer
> should be able to give you a hint :)
>
> This is the info I get for the code you entered:
> TIP: Don’t forget to add '.L' to the code
>
> > perl ./stockdump.pl yahoo_json GB0003878559.L
> $VAR1 = {
>           'GB0003878559.Lname' => 'GB0003878559.L (Fidelity MoneyBuilder
> Balanced)',
>           'GB0003878559.Lisodate' => '2014-06-20',
>           'GB0003878559.Llast' => '49.000000',
>           'GB0003878559.Ldate' => '06/20/2014',
>           'GB0003878559.Lvolume' => '0',
>           'GB0003878559.Lsuccess' => 1,
>           'GB0003878559.Ltype' => 'mutualfund',
>           'GB0003878559.Lsymbol' => 'GB0003878559.L',
>           'GB0003878559.Lmethod' => 'yahoo_json',
>           'GB0003878559.Lexchange' => 'Sourced from Yahoo Finance (as
> JSON)'
>         };
>
> best
> --
> erik colson
>
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