finance-quote error

[Maf. King]

On Friday, 3 November 2017 16:08:39 GMT DGPickett via gnucash-user wrote:
> Yahoo sells advertising and provides quotes to their user community that
> reads their ads.  We must be missing some interface bit to say what our
> yahoo email is.  Someone in the development chain should investigate this at
> Yahoo.  Maybe they will relent until they can support such an id.

Hi,

it seems to me from reading around a bit, Yahoo! have completely disabled a 
part of their service - even bits of the Yahoo! website that use the affected 
API have been reportedly broken by this.  Left hand & right hand at Yahoo!, 
don't seem to know what each other is doing....

I know it doesn't seem this way when the program suddenly stops working, but 
this is also fundamentally not a GC problem - in the sense that when a user 
clicks to get a quote, an external tool is used, called Finance::Quote, which 
grabs data from somewhere on the web (Yahoo isn't the only place that F::Q can 
look, although it was a very good place), processes it and feeds it back to 
GC.  F::Q is used by many more projects than just GC.

The fix (if there is one) needs to be in the PERL Finance::Quote module, not GC 
itself.  Of course, all the users of GC (who seek external price info from 
Yahoo!) are affected by this, me included.  But there are others, too, who 
don't use GC that do use F::Q, who are just as affected.

The issue has been reported on the F::Q  list/forum, so the relevant 
developers are in the loop.

What would be really nice of Yahoo! to do is give out some (any!) info about 
the use-case they have taken exception to, which has led to this sudden 
decision to cause many, many people some considerable frustration.

All told, I'm getting the service from Yahoo! that I paid for. :-(  

I think, as Geert said earlier, once the dust has settled, IMHO, Erik & the 
F::Q team will outline a plan eventually.  In the meantime, as unfortunate as 
it is, we are where we are, and a bit of level-headed patience is called for.

0.02
Maf.