[GNC] Error Retrieving Quotes

[Sachin Danave]

Hi John,

Thanks a lot for the quick hint.

When I set it up as Yahoo_Jason, I get a funny value :

2,280 + 259706261342/273375011939

However, it works correctly !!

Thanks a lot for your help, much appreciated !!!

Best Regards

Sachin



On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 8:45 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 28, 2019, at 6:18 AM, Sachin Danave <sachin.danave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Sorry to raise an old topic, but I do hope I can get some help.
> >
> > I am from India and I have setup stock accounts for various stocks that I
> > hold and which are traded on National Stock Exchange in India. I have
> > installed the relevant pre-requisites including Perl on my Windows 10
> > machine.
> >
> > In the Security Editor, I have set up a stock (e.g. HDFC Bank Limited -
> > HDFCBANK.NS) with the correct ticker symbol on Yahoo Finance. I used the
> > various Online Quotes options :
> > a) Single - Yahoo as JSON or Yahoo as YQL
> > b) Unidentified - yahoo, yahoo asia etc
> >
> > When I try to Get Quotes, I get a message that there was an unidentified
> > error while retrieving quotes.
> >
> > Does this even work for any of the stocks traded on Indian stock
> exchanges
> > ? Just dont want to waste my time in something that is not available ...
>
> All of the Yahoo! price sources except yahoo_json were discontinued some
> time ago when Verizon bought Yahoo!. Using one of them will cause the
> dreaded "unknown error", so go through all of the securities for which you
> have quote retrieval enabled and make sure that none of them are using any
> yahoo source other than yahoo_json.
>
> I just tried
>   gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json HDFCBANK.NS
> and got
>   Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol: HDFCBANK.NS          <=== required
>       date: 04/26/2019           <=== recommended
>   currency: INR                  <=== required
>       last: 2280.95              <=\
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price:                      <=/
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
> so that should work.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>