Alphavantage quotes working through F::Q, not through Gnucash

[Les]

Ok, that works.  Thanks!!


On 11/12/2017 08:43 AM, David Reiser wrote:
> If gnucash is even letting you punch the “Get Quotes” button, it 
> thinks both perl and finance-quote are installed correctly.
>
> If the environment file you edited is
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash/environment
> then it looks to me like you only need the
>
>  ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=################
>
> form of the command instead of  ‘export 
> ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=################’
>
> And you have relaunched gnucash since editing the environment file? 
> Environment files only get automatically read once per process lifetime.
>
> If you want to try manually, open the terminal app and type [copy and 
> paste works as long as you leave out the leading $]:
>
> $export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=zzz
> $/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump 
> alphavantage TGT
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>   symbol: TGT                  <=== required
>     date: 11/10/2017           <=== recommended
> currency: USD                  <=== required
>     last: 61.4000              <=\
>     nav:                      <=== one of these
>   price:                      <=/
> timezone:                      <=== optional
>
>
> the ‘$’ is displayed by the Terminal app, not something you type.
> Note that your API key is now available for as long as this particular 
> terminal window is open, you don’t have to reenter it to try other 
> ticker symbols
>
> Using the Up Arrow on the keyboard at a ‘$’ prompt reenters the last 
> command (without executing) so you can just edit the ticker symbol 
> without having to retype the whole command.
> --
> Dave Reiser
> dbreiser at icloud.com <mailto:dbreiser at icloud.com>
>
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>
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>> On Nov 12, 2017, at 9:10 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:lelliott5 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I added Alphavantage API key to the end of 
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/Environment, which is 
>> where I was informed it needed to be.  Is this no correct?
>>
>> As for command line, I have tried running changing directories to 
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app .
>>
>>
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