[GNC] v3.8

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Dec 31 15:34:55 EST 2019



> On Dec 31, 2019, at 10:34 AM, farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> Seems like I'm always dealing with Perl troubles on here.
> I found the utility script you described, and the results I get with it are
> as expected:
> 
> < --- Begin Test --- >
> $VAR1 = {
>          'AMZNerrormsg' => 'Error retrieving quote for AMZN. Attempt to
> fetch the URL https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=AMZN
> resulted in HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)',
>          'AMZNsymbol' => 'AMZN',
>          'AMZNsuccess' => 0
>        };
> < --- End Test --- >
> 
> Perl: V5.18.2
> Finance::Quote V1.49
> MacOS Sierra V10.12.6
> 
> I'm kind of at a loss as to how to debug this given the above info. Could it
> be that the URL in the YahooJSON.pm I have is no longer valid? 
> 

Nope. If I paste that into my browser I get a nice JSON quote. Maybe you have other perl modules, LWP comes to mind, that are borked. Try `sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote` which should get F::Q and all of its dependencies up to date. 

Regards,
John Ralls



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