[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

[Dan Nelms]

Hi Michael,

I tried your securities (ACN and FBIOX) with yahoo_json. Got unable to
retrieve...

I tried a couple of my securities with alphavantage. It worked fine.

I tried your sec with Yahoo together with mine with alphaV at same time.
It got mine and yours were unable...

I tried your securities with alphaV and got the prices fine.

Results are the price database is working and alphavantage is working,
but for me Yahoo json fails in all cases.

Dan


On 9/5/2018 6:09 AM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>>     <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
>>
>>
>
>