[GNC] Finance Quotes Using Yahoo json

[Dan Nelms]

Could I be missing some type of variable setting in the environment
file? I know that when I first setup AlphaVantage (before the update to
3.2) I had to put my Alphavantage key in the environment file. Since
Yahoo was not an option when 3.2 came out, maybe a variable that made
Yahoo work before got deleted from the upgrade? I only throw this out
because it is way over my head technically, but maybe somebody knows
something about this. Just grasping at straws with insufficient knowledge.


On 9/5/2018 9:15 AM, Fross, Michael wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>>     <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
>>>
>>>
>>
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