finance-quote error

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 3 november 2017 09:56:24 CET schreef Colin Law:
> On 3 November 2017 at 04:46, Keith Myers <keith.myers at att.net> wrote:
> > Confused why the Price Quote worked up till Nov. 1 when all my Google
> > searches indicate the API was pulled back in July.  Why was it still
> > working till yesterday?
> > 
> > What are the Gnucash developers going to do to remedy the problem?
> 
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> of all of us and deserve our undying gratitude for their efforts.
> 
> Colin
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While I understand this affects many gnucash users, it is not something that 
can or should be solved in gnucash directly. Gnucash doesn't directly use the 
Yahoo! service. Gnucash uses the finance::quote tool which manages several 
price sources, one of which being Yahoo!.

I think we'll have to wait until the dust settles down before we can take 
sensible action. Clearly the people accessing the service directly are 
discussing with Yahoo! itself. I also don't know what finance::quote will 
decide to do from here. Will they grab quotes from another service or not ? 
This should all be cleared first IMO.

I'm sorry this brings such an inconvenience in the mean time.

Geert