Update stock quotes not working

[Maf. King]

Hi Peter,

Earlier this month, Yahoo switched off their price info API.  This has caused 
problems for many users.   Try yahoo_json or alphavantage as your quote 
sources.  (you need a key from alphavantage - see the Gnucash FAQ for more 
info about this  - https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.
27t_online_quoting_work.3F 

Best,
Maf.



On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 16:03:47 GMT Peter Gröbner wrote:
>    Hello,
> 
>    Iam new to Gnucash and got some trouble updating my stock quotes. First
>    some informations:
>    - OS: Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
>    - Gnucash 2.6.12
> 
>    I have tried a lot of things so far but I never get back any values
>    when trying to get the current stock prices. What Ive done so far:
> 
>    1.) Checked my Finance::Quote installation by using gnc-fq-update (see
>    email attachement)
>    2.) Checked all available quote sources by using gnc-fq-check (see
>    email attachement)
>    3.) Tried a lot of different sources and some different stocks (but
>    mainly Amazon, like descirbed in the online help). With some quote
>    sources i receive "No results found for stock xy" and with other I get
>    "This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!" (see email attachement).
>    Here are some examples of what I did:
>         - gnc-fq-dump yahoo AMZN
>         - gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe AMZN
>         - gnc-fq-dump unionfunds AMZN        <-- German quote source
>         - gnc-fq-dump unionfunds AMZ.F        <-- Traded in Frankfurt
>         - gnc-fq-dump unionfunds 906866     <-- Type: German WKN
>    And  all this with a lot more sources and types....
> 
>    Can anyone tell me what Iam doing wrong? I have read a lot of forum
>    discussions but I could not fix the problem.
>    Thanks in advance!
> 
>    Greetings


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