[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

[Dan Nelms]

Thanks Michael for your comments about using Yahoo_json for some of your
security quotes. My needs are also very mild, but they number more than 4.

I am running GnuCash version 3.2, Finance::Quote 1.47 (Strawberry) on a
Windows 10 machine.

I tried using Yahoo_json with the GnuCash security editor and each time
I get the "could not get quotes for the following...." message. I tried
2 mutual funds, 2 NYSE stocks and 1 NASDAQ stock. They all failed. I
tried closing and restarting Gnucash just to be the changes in the
security editor got loaded, still all failures. Yahoo_json is either not
working for me or I am doing something wrong. Damn, I was hoping for an
easy solution.

Alphavantage works fine but only for the first 4 securities.

Dan


On 9/3/2018 6:59 AM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.html#idm139753655191424>
>     ;-)
>
>     Frank
>
>