finance-quote error

Wed Nov 1 23:53:48 EDT 2017

On Nov 1, 2017, at 7:25 PM, brad <bradhaack at fastmail.us> wrote:
> 
> get quotes just quit working.
> 
> Gnucash 'Get Quotes' results in:
> 
> Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
> 
> followed by what looks to be all of my securities
> 
> 
> If I run on the cmd line
> 
> gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo VT
> 
> No results found for stock VT, but results were returned for
> the stock(s) HTTP/1.1 999 Request denied, <html><head><title>Yahoo! - 999 Unable to process request at this time -- error 999</title></head><body>Sorry, Via: http/1.1 media-router-api24.prod.media.gq1.yahoo.com (ApacheTrafficServer [c s f ]), Content-Type: text/html, Expires: -1, Cache-Control: max-age=0, Server: ATS, Date: Thu, Content-Length: 177, Age: 0, , Connection: close.  Printing data for the first stock returned.
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol:  (deduced)           <=== required
>       date: 11/01/2017           <=== required
>   currency: USD                  <=== required
>       last:                      <=\
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price:                      <=/
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
> 
> ...
> 
> and a bunch more.
> 
> I can try any server or stock and get a similar error.

I don’t get the 999 http error for every source, but I do for Yahoo! and a couple of others and I didn’t find any working quote mechanism for general US stocks.

In Yahoo!’s case it may be just a temporary glitch. It wouldn’t be the first time.

Regards,
John Ralls