Finance-Quote 1.42 released!

[Fross, Michael]

Hello nvsoar,

Firstly, head to alphavantage.co and signup for a free API key.  This key
is tied to you and allows you to query their data.

Secondly, set an environment variable in Windows.  The variable should be:
ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=xxxxxxxx where xxxxxx is the key from above.  In order
to set this in windows, please see my post of last week.  You can reach
that chain here
<http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/F-Q-1-39-with-support-for-AlphaVantage-released-to-CPAN-td4694638.html#a4694646>
.

Thirdly, you have to install Finance::Quote v1.42.  How you do this will
vary based on which perl distribution you are using.  I installed manually
which is ab it more involved.  It will take a day or two for the
repositories to update to 1.42 in which case you should be able to use your
distributions tools to update it.  I use Activestate's ActivePerl, and will
be able to update with PPM (perl package manager).

Lastly, change your securities to update with Alphavantage.  Open the
security editor in gnucash, edit your security, and choose OTHER |
Alphavantage for online quote updates.

After that it worked fine for me.  It is much slower than Yahoo.  For my
list, it took about 45 seconds to get all of the quotes.

I hope that helps.

Michael


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 2:40 PM, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net> wrote:

> On 11/06/17 12:04, Fross, Michael wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much Erik.  I had a lot of trouble getting 1.40 and 1.41
>> working on windows, but 1.42 worked without issue using Alphavantage.
>>
>> I appreciate you taking the time to help us (all all of the other users of
>> F:Q) out.
>>
>> If anyone is having issues getting it working on Windows with
>> Activatestate
>> Perl, I'd be happy to post about it, but it was really just installing F:Q
>> 1.42 and then  changing all of my securities to update via Alphavantage.
>> I
>> also had to add the API key to an environment variable.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
> snip
>
> Good news.  Please advise the method to get and set up the API key for
> someone who has never heard of an API key.
> Thank you for your assistance to all involved.
> nvsoar
>
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