[GNC] Get online quote for Canada Fund
David Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com
Tue Aug 13 22:35:48 EDT 2019
First, make sure that _none_ of your stocks are requesting quotes through yahoo. (yahoo_json is OK, though). It took me about 3 tries going through my stocks list to track down the straggling reference. Any stock whose online quote source is yahoo will cause the entire retrieval effort to fail.
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at icloud.com
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 9:29 PM, Kaman Wu <kamanwu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I still need someone help me.
>
> I made changes of Cdnfundlibrary.pm. Now when I run:
>
> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary 8282
>
> I could get:
>
> PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v fundlibrary
> 8282
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> symbol: 8282 <=== required
> date: 08/12/2019 <=== recommended
> currency: CAD <=== required
> last: 14.91 <=\
> nav: <=== one of these
> price: <=/
> timezone: <=== optional
>
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock 8282
>
> stock field value
> ----- ----- -----
> 8282 currency: CAD
> 8282 date: 08/12/2019
> 8282 isodate: 2019-08-12
> 8282 last: 14.91
> 8282 link: https://www.fundlibrary.com/MutualFunds/Detail/8282
> 8282 method: fundlibrary
> 8282 source: http://www.fundlibrary.com
> 8282 success: 1
> 8282 symbol: 8282
>
>
> So the results looks correct to me. BUT when I go to Tools->Price
> Database, and clicked "Get Quotes" button, I still CANNOT get the results.
>
> How should I debug this problem?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ove Grunnér <write2ove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I don't know, I'm using Linux, so directories will be very
>> different.
>> br Ove.
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 03:05, Kaman Wu <kamanwu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Ove,
>>>
>>> I try to change the code by myself. I am using windows 10 right now.
>>>
>>> I find the perl code
>>> at: C:\Strawberry\cpan\build\Finance-Quote-1.49-0\lib\Finance\Quote\Cdnfundlibrary.pm
>>>
>>> BUT after I made the change, it looks like the GNC still call the old
>>> code. Can I change that file directly?
>>> Does GNC keep a copy of this file? (I cannot find the it)
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:46 PM Kaman Wu <kamanwu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> thanks a lot. I will try it.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:40 PM Ove Grunnér <write2ove at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was looking at the code in cpan, and it looks like the module is
>>>>> using this base url
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.fundlibrary.com/funds/db/_fundcard.asp?t=2&id=
>>>>>
>>>>> and then adding the code after it, e.g.
>>>>> http://www.fundlibrary.com/funds/db/_fundcard.asp?t=2&id=1743
>>>>>
>>>>> however when trying this url, I get Error 404, unknown web page,
>>>>>
>>>>> It could be that the module is not current and fails on everything.
>>>>>
>>>>> if you are comfortable with perl, you could try changing the url in the module.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried also to retrieve the mutual fund from my ubuntu based gnucash, and it also fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> there are contact details for this module on this url: https://metacpan.org/author/ECOCODE
>>>>>
>>>>> the author of the code may be able to help more.
>>>>>
>>>>> br Ove.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 15:44, Kaman Wu <kamanwu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Ove,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for reply my question. I did try "1743". Still get the same
>>>>>> error message. I really need solve the problem, otherwise, I have to
>>>>>> manually input the price for all funds I have.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v
>>>>>> fundlibrary 1743
>>>>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>>>> symbol: 1743 (deduced) <=== required
>>>>>> date: ** missing ** <=== recommended
>>>>>> currency: ** missing ** <=== required
>>>>>> last: <=\
>>>>>> nav: <=== one of these
>>>>>> price: <=/
>>>>>> timezone: <=== optional
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock 1743
>>>>>>
>>>>>> stock field value
>>>>>> ----- ----- -----
>>>>>> 1743 errormsg: Fund name 1743 not found
>>>>>> 1743 last: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 nav: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 price: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 success: 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v
>>>>>> canadamutual 1743
>>>>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>>>> symbol: 1743 (deduced) <=== required
>>>>>> date: ** missing ** <=== recommended
>>>>>> currency: ** missing ** <=== required
>>>>>> last: <=\
>>>>>> nav: <=== one of these
>>>>>> price: <=/
>>>>>> timezone: <=== optional
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock 1743
>>>>>>
>>>>>> stock field value
>>>>>> ----- ----- -----
>>>>>> 1743 errormsg: Error determining fund code for 1743.
>>>>>> 1743 last: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 nav: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 price: **missing**
>>>>>> 1743 success: 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:56 AM Ove Grunnér <write2ove at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Kaman,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> according to https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote::Cdnfundlibrary
>>>>>>> "This module uses an id that represents the mutual fund on an id used
>>>>>>> by www.fundlibrary.com. There is no easy way of fetching the id
>>>>>>> except to jump onto the fundlibrary website, look up the fund and view the
>>>>>>> url for clues to its id number."
>>>>>>> the url for TDB900 is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.fundlibrary.com/MutualFunds/Detail/td-canadian-index-fund-e-series/1743
>>>>>>> so try 1743
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> br Ove.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 04:07, Kaman Wu <kamanwu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I did some search, and found some old posts which are not very
>>>>>>>> helpful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think I can use:
>>>>>>>> https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote::Cdnfundlibrary
>>>>>>>> Basing on this module, it use the data from
>>>>>>>> http://www.fundlibrary.com/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I do can search TDB900 on this website and find the correct fund.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> BUT when I setup it up in gnucash, I get quote failed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PS C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin> perl .\gnc-fq-dump -v
>>>>>>>> fundlibrary
>>>>>>>> TDB900
>>>>>>>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>>>>>>> symbol: TDB900 (deduced) <=== required
>>>>>>>> date: ** missing ** <=== recommended
>>>>>>>> currency: ** missing ** <=== required
>>>>>>>> last: <=\
>>>>>>>> nav: <=== one of these
>>>>>>>> price: <=/
>>>>>>>> timezone: <=== optional
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock TDB900
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> stock field value
>>>>>>>> ----- ----- -----
>>>>>>>> TDB900 errormsg: Fund name TDB900 not found
>>>>>>>> TDB900 last: **missing**
>>>>>>>> TDB900 nav: **missing**
>>>>>>>> TDB900 price: **missing**
>>>>>>>> TDB900 success: 0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any one know how to fix it? or how (where) to report this problem?
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
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