[GNC] AlphaVantage deal

[David G Hamblen]

It's apparently only for US securities, which might be ok for a subset 
of users.  There is an alphavantage_batch.pm out there.

https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/issues/77


On 08/23/2018 04:22 PM, Alun Champion wrote:
> Any reason not to move to the batch API (`
> https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=BATCH_STOCK_QUOTES&symbols=MSFT,AXP,...&apikey=XXX`)
> then
> you could get all the current quotes with a single call. It seems
> inefficient to get the stock history one stock at a time to discard all the
> values but the first one to get the current quote.
>     -A.
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 12:22, floppy5.25 <giulio at cruton.info> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:51:32 AM -05 Ethan Swint wrote:
>>> I recently inquired with AlphaVantage about providing something between
>>> their free 1 quote/20 seconds and their $20/month offering of 1 request
>> / 4
>>> seconds with premium support.
>>>
>>> I think most users here are on the once-a-day sync between GnuCash and
>> the
>>> markets, so I proposed a tier that would provide 128 queries/day at 2
>>> queries/second before dropping back down to the free level of 1 quote /
>> 20
>>> seconds for a monthly fee of USD$5/month. AlphaVantage expressed
>>> willingness to provide something along those lines - what do you folks
>>> think? Would this be something worth $5/mo, $10/mo, or are most users
>> happy
>>> at the free levels?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ethan
>> I would gladly pay $10/mo for reliable quotes as long as I can get a wide
>> range of sources. Many funds that I use are not supported by AlphaVantage.
>>
>> My $0.00002
>>
>>
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