finance::quote does not produce results

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 25, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Henrik tom Wörden <henrik at trineo.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had gnucash working with finance quote, but for quite some time now it
> does not work anymore. I tried to figure out what the problem is, but I
> could not find it so far.
> 
> In the following I will show you the output that some commands produce.
> 
>>> gnc-fq-check
> ("1.47" "adig" "aex" "aiahk" "alphavantage" "amfiindia" "asegr" "asia"
> "asx" "australia" "bamosz" "bet" "bmonesbittburns" "bourso" "brasil"
> "bse" "bsero" "canada" "canadamutual" "citywire" "cominvest" "cse"
> "deka" "dutch" "dwsfunds" "europe" "fetch_live_currencies" "fidelity"
> "fidelity_direct" "fidelityfixed" "financecanada" "finanzpartner"
> "finland" "fool" "france" "ftfunds" "ftportfolios" "ftportfolios_direct"
> "fundlibrary" "goldmoney" "greece" "hex" "hu" "hufund" "hungary"
> "hustock" "indiamutual" "known_currencies" "lerevenu" "maninv"
> "morningstar" "morningstarjp" "mstaruk" "nasdaq" "nyse" "nz" "nzx"
> "platinum" "romania" "seb_funds" "sixfunds" "sixshares"
> "stockhousecanada_fund" "tdefunds" "tdwaterhouse" "tiaacref" "tnetuk"
> "troweprice" "troweprice_direct" "trustnet" "tsp" "tsx" "uk_unit_trusts"
> "ukfunds" "unionfunds" "usa" "usfedbonds" "vanguard" "vwd" "yahoo"
> "yahoo_asia" "yahoo_australia" "yahoo_brasil" "yahoo_europe"
> "yahoo_json" "yahoo_nz" "yahoo_yql" "za" "za_unittrusts")
> 
>>> echo '(yahoo "IBM" "LNUX") ' | gnc-fq-helper
> #f
> 
> I also attached a dummy program. When called with perl dummy4.pl it
> should print what fetch returns. However, there is no output.
> 
> Does anyone have a hint for me, how I might get to the source of the
> problem?

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F>

Regards,
John Ralls