[GNC] Getting online Mutual Fund with gnucash

[The Tibetan Traveller]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2018, John Ralls wrote:

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>> On Dec 24, 2018, at 1:02 PM, The Tibetan Traveller <garnet at aufait.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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Thanks for the reply.  You are correct in that it was due to throttling. 
I fixed it by adding the "sleep" command mentioned in this thread:

https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-December/081071.html