Unable to download stock quotes

[Steven Anter]

I think most of my securities are with nyse.
Also nasdaq.

On Mar 20, 2018 6:18 PM, "Chris Good" <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steven,
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> Are you using Windows? My fix only helps for Windows.
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> In Security Editor, Select Type of quote source      Single    Yahoo as
> JSON
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> My fix hasn’t yet been incorporated into CPAN Finance::Quote so the only
> way to get it now is to follow instructions in the nabble link. That is the
> latest version.
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> You haven’t said from what exchange you are getting prices for, but
> similar to using suffix .AX on the symbol for Australian exchange, you will
> have to add the appropriate suffix to your Symbol if not US.
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> I see you haven’t copied gnucash-user at gnucash.org on your reply.
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> I assume that is because you understandably didn’t want to share how many
> stocks you have with the world.
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> I would appreciate it if you share your experience with
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org when it is resolved, however it turns out.
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> Regards, Chris Good
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> *From:* Steven Anter <anter.s at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 March 2018 11:27 AM
> *To:* Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: Unable to download stock quotes
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> Chris,
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> Yahoo JSON was working fine until recently.  Last time I tried it, it hung
> for a while then came back with a long list of securities it couldn't
> process. I'm trying to get quotes for about 50 tickers.
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> How do I use  YahooJSON.pm?  It's not one of the listed sites, should I
> enter it manually as "unknown?"  How do I know I have your latest version?
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:31 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;     charset=utf-8
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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,
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> 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
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