Indian Stock quotes

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Aug 17 05:39:55 EDT 2015


> On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:
> 
> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> Erik, can you have a look at this?
> 
> It is a known problem for .BO stocks.
> 
> When you open the page @ yahoo:
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ANDHRABANK.BO you get the quotes
> correctly. But if, on that page, you hit the link "Download Data
> (delayed)" (at the bottom on the right of the page) you get a csv with
> all quote fields returning N/A. That is why yahoo and yahoo_asia fail to
> return the quotes. I guess yahoo has his reason for this limitation.
> 
> So I discovered the json interface returns (albeit less) info for those
> stocks, which is the reason why I implemented support for it:
> 
> perl Examples/stockdump.pl yahoo_json ANDHRABANK.BO
> $VAR1 = {
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOname' => 'ANDHRABANK.BO (ANDHRA BANK)',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOdate' => '08/17/2015',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOexchange' => 'Sourced from Yahoo Finance (as JSON)',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOtype' => 'equity',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOsymbol' => 'ANDHRABANK.BO',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOlast' => '79.349998',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOvolume' => '581482',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOsuccess' => 1,
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOisodate' => '2015-08-17',
>          'ANDHRABANK.BOmethod' => 'yahoo_json'
>        };
> 
> I didn't check if this info is suffisient/compatible with gnucash
> though. If not so, please tell me what needs to be reordered/renamed..
> 

Erik,

Thanks. GC needs a currency field in order to interpret the price correctly.

Regards,
John Ralls




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