[GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

[John Ralls]

It’s only live when that particular issue is trading; e.g. for a US stock between 0930 and 1600 Eastern Time. That makes it unsuitable for F::Q.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jun 2, 2018, at 6:12 AM, Alun Champion <list at achampion.net> wrote:
> 
> Alphavantage does provide a batch stock api, which you only sends the
> latest quote, you can send just one stock to that api call e.g. (
> https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=BATCH_STOCK_QUOTES&symbols=MSFT&apikey=<apikey>),
> which only returns the latest value.
>    -A.
> 
> On 31 May 2018 at 20:12, prl <prl at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 31/05/2018 12:59, Dave Tapuska wrote:
>> 
>>>> From the gnucash point of view it only uses the latest quote so even
>>> returning the compact list (which is the last 100 days) is far overkill.
>>> Perhaps a lighter weight request returning the last closing value would be
>>> sufficient.
>>> 
>> That would be ideal, but as far as I can see, the compact list (last 100
>> days) is the smallest amount of data that can be requested using the
>> TIME_SERIES_DAILY function in the AlphaVantage API <
>> https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/>. The only alternative in the
>> documentation is full, which returns daily opening and closing prices for
>> up to the last 20 years.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
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