[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

Fross, Michael michael at fross.org
Wed Sep 5 09:09:43 EDT 2018


Hello Dan,

I just looked at my GNC Price Database and the following quotes are
returned successfully for me with Yahoo_JSON.  Why don't you try a few of
these and see if they work for you.  They are current as of September 4,
2018 for me.

Stock:  ACN
Fund: FBIOX, FBMPX, FCYIX

Regards,

Michael

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Dan Nelms <dan99nelms at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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
>>
>>
>
>


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