Finance-Quote 1.47 Unable to retrieve Currency quotes

[John Ralls]

You can't change the quote source for currencies. Currency retrieval in Finance::Quote needs two symbols, one for each currency, while stock symbols require only one. Finance::Quote has the currency source hardwired: Formerly to Yahoo! now to Alphavantage. 

I was able to get a currency price (EUR->USD) just now with no trouble and not much delay.

Regards,
John Ralls
> On Feb 22, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I forgot to add that the last update I received for currencies (all 9 of them) was 02/13/2018.
> 
> 
> On 02/22/2018 03:09 AM, ln.mailinglists at iinet.net.au wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>> It's definitely alphavantage for currency - you can check the data URL
>> early in the Quote.pm module.
>> I'd agree with Adriano's assessment that the problem is server side.
>> I did a test this morning where I repeatedly requested quotes from
>> gnucash - the first four attempts sucessfully grabbed all of my stock
>> values but failed on USD/AUD exchange rates, while the fifth test got
>> everything.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Larry
>> 
>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:24:25 +0000
>> From: Richard Morris
>> To: Adriano Baldi
>> Cc: gnucash-user
>> Subject: Re: Finance-Quote 1.47 Unable to retrieve Currency quotes
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>> But I wonder - does GNUCash use alphavantage for currencies?
>> I see this:
>> "There are 3 types of sources of which the first - currency - is
>> hardcoded
>> and responsible to fetch ISO currencies. The other two can be selected
>> in
>> the security editor."
>> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-help/apas01.html
>> I'm still having the issue with currencies. How about you Adriano?
>> And isn't it odd that gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR (for example)
>> works?
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