[GNC] UK Shares and Yahoo as JSON

[Eric Coates]

Graham

I have used Morningstar GB sucessfully for Unit Trust prices for quite a 
while now.

I've just tried it for (a selection of my UK) shares but no luck.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Eric
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On 05/09/18 07:03, Graham Balin wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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