[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

[Fross, Michael]

Don't know what else to try other than perhaps some of the other F:Q quote
sources.  Of course after this discussion, I'm sure my Yahoo_JSON quotes
will soon start to fail....... :-)

Michael

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Dan Nelms <dan99nelms at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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