[GNC] UK Shares and Yahoo as JSON

[Graham Balin]

Have you tried single-Morningstar GB as your source?

Cheerio

Graham

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, 8:15 pm Eric Coates, <eric.coates at sky.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Context: I’m running GnuCash 2.16.7 on Ubuntu 1604 with Finance-Quote 1.47.
>
> Like many others I have been using AlphaVantage as the source for my
> online share price retrievals and been experiencing difficulties.
> Following up on hints in the mailing list I have tried using
> Single/Yahoo as JSON as an alternative source.
>
> Having set the source as Single/Yahoo as JSON for all my shares and
> clicking Get Quotes I got very rich! Unfortunately, a quick
> investigation revealed that, although my European shares had received
> (what looked like) good quotes, the prices received for my UK shares
> come back 100 times too big.
>
> As I have relatively few shares and usually only update the prices at
> the end of the month it is not totally ridiculous to input UK share
> prices by hand. But it would be so much nicer to be able to do it
> automatically.
>
> Assuming that others are having the same problem with UK shares and
> Yahoo as JSON (are they?), is there a known (and hopefully simple) way
> to correct the Yahoo prices?
>
> I wonder if there is a possible alternative: It has been hinted here
> that GnuCash 3 has a much improved CSV importer and (if I understand
> properly) it is possible to input share prices using it. It would be
> possible to get the list of shares and their prices from my broker
> account. Is the GnuCash 3 importer documented (I can't find anything) so
> as to make the import easy? (But that means upgrading and, again, my
> ignorance means I need simple instructions.)
>
> As always, my thanks to the developers and the documentation team and
> other users of this list for their time and efforts
>
> Best wishes
>
> Eric
>
> PS: Please forgive this aside:
>
> On the Securities Editor page, for me, it is not possible to un-tick the
> box in the Get Quote column. Should it be?
>
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