[GNC] Downloading stock prices in the UK

[Adrien Monteleone]

Eric,

Just for completeness, v3.5 is the most current. But 3.4 is what is in the 19.04 repos.

For now, if you want 3.5 you’ll need to build from source. (easy to do)

One list user is working on re-packaging a .deb of 3.5 to work on 19.04 and there is an unpublicized (and very experimental) Flatpak floating around, though I don’t know if it is at 3.5 yet.

I don’t keep up with FQ version numbers to know if there is a more recent one packaged with 3.5.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Apr 25, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Eric Coates <eric.coates at sky.com> wrote:
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> Alan
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> Before commenting about the failure of Get Online Quotes to get anything useful a small amplification of Fred Bone's comment that *Type* can be anything you want (Fred has given his choice, I use a different set - LSE for London quoted shares, EUREX for shares quoted on continental European bourses, Fund for unit trusts - use whatever works for you ) so can the *F**ull Name* - for example you could use SSE or Scottish and Southern Electricity or even its full formal name SSE Plc Ord 50p.
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> As for why you're not getting even one quote ...
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> You've obviously got an internet connection and you're?? ticking the *Get Online Quotes* box and (I assume) you've updated the AphaVantage.pm file so I'm close to the edge of my knowledge.
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> On the basis of those assumptions, I'd try something a little "left field". Safeguard your data and try changing the source of quotes to *Single - Yahoo as JSON*. As I said earlier Yahoo is seen as reliable (I use it for my European shares) but I'd expect you to get a price that will be 100 times too big (just try one share then if you're brave/foolhardy enough to risk your live data it's easy to delete the wrong value). The result of this experiment may (just may) give us something to get our teeth into. And when I say "us"/"our" I mean the community at large - as I said I'm staring into the dark.
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> Best wishes
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> Eric
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> PS: But there's a small niggle that I've just noticed: I've just upgraded my operating system and got an upgraded gnuCash as a bonus (I'm now running gnuCash 3.4 with Finance::Quote 1.47 on Ubuntu 19.04 all of which, I believe, are the most up-to-date versions). In the Edit Security window what used to appear as *AlphaVantage* in the *Unknown* category now appears as *Alphavantage, US* under *Single*. Even though the name has changed Alphavantage, US gives me legitimate values for UK shares. Did the US put you off? It seems unlikely.
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