Unable to download stock quotes

[Steven Anter]

Chris,

I think most of my securities are with nyse.
Also nasdaq, otc, and mutual funds.


On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Steven Anter <anter.s at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> Are you using Windows? My fix only helps for Windows.
>>
>> In Security Editor, Select Type of quote source      Single    Yahoo as
>> JSON
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> I see you haven’t copied gnucash-user at gnucash.org on your reply.
>>
>> I assume that is because you understandably didn’t want to share how many
>> stocks you have with the world.
>>
>> I would appreciate it if you share your experience with
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org when it is resolved, however it turns out.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards, Chris Good
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>> > > 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_qu
>> oting_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
>>
>>
>>
>