Unable to download stock quotes

[Chris Good]

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:56:40 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: santer <anter.s at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Unable to download stock quotes
> Message-ID: <FDA85E0F-F78B-4CF3-99AB-779C45E57C62 at ceridwen.us>
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> > On Mar 19, 2018, at 7:53 PM, santer <anter.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The ability to download stock quotes has been a critical feature of
gnucash.
> > The yahoo resource stopped working over the last few months. A work
> > around for me has been yahoo json, which is now so slow it's unusable.
> >
> > Does anyone know if something is being done to resolve this problem.
> > What are some other work around options?
> 
> The only general workaround besides yahoo-json that we know of is
> Alphavantage, as explained at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3
> F
> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.
> 3F>. It is also quite slow compared to the former Yahoo! service.
> 
> Another alternative might be Google Finance, but there?s some concern
about
> their terms of service vis-a-vis screen-scraping.
> 
> GnuCash 3.0 includes a new importer for stock prices in CSV format. If you
can
> arrange to download quotes from a financial institution with which you do
> business you may be able to format those downloads for import.
> 
> Beyond that, we?re pretty much stuck. Neither we nor Erik Colson, the
> maintainer of Finance::Quote, can do much about retrieving quotes without
a
> service to retrieve from.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Hi Santer,

I don't think I have heard of Yahoo JSON being slow before.
I just did a test and for my 16 stocks it took approx. 15 seconds.
Is it just slow for you or does it actually hang?
If you don't mind telling us, how many stocks do you have using Yahoo JSON?

If you are using Windows, have you tried using my new YahooJSON.pm that has
the warning messages fixed?
See
http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Fix-for-yahoo-json-for-Windows-users-tt
4697837.html

Regards, Chris Good