[GNC] Getting online Mutual Fund with gnucash

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Dec 25 23:21:32 EST 2018



> On Dec 24, 2018, at 1:02 PM, The Tibetan Traveller <garnet at aufait.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am having a strange issue with getting online quotes for mutual funds. Everything appears to be setup correctly since it works correctly for stocks.  However, of the 14 mutual funds I have (most are vanguard funds), I get a quote for one and only one vanguard mutual find.  I get a pop up window saying "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:" and a list of all my other mutual funds.  I double checked the configuration for the one that works and one that does not work.  They are the same.
> 
> I didn't get any errors when checking with gnc-gq-helper.  The output from gnc-gq-helper on one of the MFs that do not work is:
> 
> (alphavantage "VSMAX")
> (("VSMAX" (symbol . "VSMAX") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2018-12-21 12:00:00") (last . 60.7300) (currency . "USD")))
> 
> The various versions of the software I am using:
> 
> Distribution: Slackware 14.2
> gnucash: 3.3
> perl: 5.22
> Finace::Quote - 1.47

That’s most likely due to Alphavantage throttling. You can either install Finance::Quote from git (takes a bit of perl innards knowledge) or switch everything you can to yahoo-json.

Regards,
John Ralls



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