[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

[Fross, Michael]

Hello Dan,

My needs are fairly mild, but yes I currently use Yahoo_JSON for all of my
quotes.  Most of my investments are in US mutual funds although I do have
several individual stocks.

I simply use "*Single: Yahoo as JSON"* in the security editor.  I had
switched to AlphaVantage when everyone else did and it worked most of the
time, although it was very slow.  I think it's worse now so I'm happy
Yahoo_JSON continues to work...at least for the time being.  I pull down 37
quotes, so not that many but if Alphavantage allows 5 quotes / min, it
would take me 7+ minutes do download those.

Now I don't believe it will handle currencies and I'm not sure about non-US
exchanges, but this does work for me.  You can always do the ones it
supports via Yahoo_JSON and just the others via AlphaVantage depending on
your situation.

Michael

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Am 03.09.2018 um 00:10 schrieb Dan Nelms:
> > Micheal, I noticed in one of your replies to a user having Finance:Quote
> > problems that are still getting quotes from Yahoo_json for most of your
> > quotes. Are you doing that through the GnuCash Security setup? If so
> > what button do you use, ie Single, Multiple or Unknown? I would like to
> > try it. Thanks. Dan
>
> RTFM:
> https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.
> html#idm139753655191424
> ;-)
>
> Frank
>
>