Stock quote can't be updated

[John Bonnett]

On 28/04/2017 12:17 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Apr 27, 2017, at 3:40 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Am 27.04.2017 um 23:52 schrieb John Bonnett:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am also suddenly having a problem retrieving quotes from ASX
>>> (Australian Stock Exchange). I tried making sure I had the latest Perl
>>> but still no luck. It was all working fine until a few days ago, about
>>> 21 April
>>>
>>> Most of my stocks are on ASX but I have one on NASDAQ that continues to
>>> work OK. All the ASX ones now say they cannot retrieve. Something
>>> changed at ASX?
>>>
>>> I tried running gnc-fq-dump on one stock as follows:
>>>
>>> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump asx AFI
>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>     symbol: AFI (deduced)        <= required
>>>       date: ** missing **        <= recommended
>>>   currency: ** missing **        <= required
>>>       last:                      <=
>>>        nav:                      <== one of these
>>>      price:                      <=
>>>   timezone:                      <== optional
>>>
>>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
>> If you run it with the verbose flag
>> gnc-fq-dump -v asx afi
>> you get additional:
>>
>> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock afi
>>
>> stock field value
>> ----- ----- -----
>> afi errormsg: Failed to parse HTML table.
>> afi last: **missing**
>> afi nav: **missing**
>> afi price: **missing**
>> afi success: 0
>>
>> while
>> http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/equityPrices.do?by=xCodes&asxCodes¯I <http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/equityPrices.do?by=asxCodes&asxCodes¯I>
>> returns some data. So it seems, they modified the layout of the page.
>>
>>> I am on Windows 10.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>> Perhaps Chris can ghelp you.
> That's more a problem for Erik, so I've added him to the cc in case he isn't watching gnucash-user ATM.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
Switching my source to Yahoo Australia rather than ASX fixed this 
problem. It seems ASX has changed their page layouts and fooled the 
screen scraping.

John Bonnett