Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Richard Lindgren]

I sure am not getting anywhere. I'm almost ready to throw in the towel and
enter my prices manually. Boy, I sure don't want to do that. If I can fix
the problem, that would be Great!
Richard
On Jun 26, 2014 2:00 PM, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 6/25/2014 8:11 AM, Richard Lindgren wrote:
> > 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
> I always get that message for two particular items that Yahoo does not
> recognize.  The others come through fine for me.  Are you now getting
> some quotes?
> David C
>
> > 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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