[GNC] Australian Stock Quotes

[Chris Good]

Message: 8
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:56:37 +0530
From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
To: normanj <njessup at tpg.com.au>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Australian Stock Quotes
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Norman,

Glad to help. In the future, be sure to ?Reply All? so that your message
gets back to the list. That way, everyone gets to hear the denouement.

David

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Norman Jessup <njessup at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Thanks David,
> 
> This is very helpful
> 
> regards,
> 
> Norman Jessup
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16/1/19 10:24 pm, David T. wrote:
>> Norman,
>> 
>> While the ?FinanceQuote Update? module might not have been changed since
2010, *Finance Quote* (which actually performs quote retrieval for GnuCash)
most certainly has been updated numerous times since then. If you *run*
?FinanceQuote Update,? it will ? update Finance Quote for you. The most
recent version of Finance::Quote is 1.47, and is dated November 12, 2017.
>> 
>> Please note that there has been a huge amount of discussion about F::Q
over the last year and a half (which is probably what underlies your note
about it stopping working); to keep the story short, Yahoo! decided to stop
providing price quotes. From the resulting hullaballoo, F::Q changed primary
quote providers, either to AlphaVantage or to Yahoo! Json. You will need to
reset your commodities each to use a currently-valid source. Much of this is
explained on the wiki at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F
<https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F>
Note Paragraph 3.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David T.
>> 
>>> On Jan 16, 2019, at 9:10 AM, normanj <njessup at tpg.com.au
<mailto:njessup at tpg.com.au>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A year or two (or three) ago the share price tool stopped working for
>>> Australian shares.   I saw some forum posts suggesting that source of
>>> Australian quotes was no longer available and needed to be changed.
>>> 
>>> While there have been several new version of GnuCash released since 
>>> then, the FinanceQuote Update module does not appear to have changed
since 2010.
>>> 
>>> I've tried without success to modify the tool myself.  Is anyone 
>>> able to point me towards detailed instructions about what I need to do
to fix this?
>>> or possibly where I can download a more up-to-date version of the tool?
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> _______________________________________________

Hi Norman,

There is already a fix (from me) for using the ASX as a source in
Finance::Quote which has been merged [1] and is waiting (since Jul 16, 2018)
for a new release (1.48?).

The (main?) F::Q maintainer Erik Colson has said he no longer has time and
asked for volunteers to take over. A couple of months ago (I think) some-one
did volunteer but I haven't seen any progress yet.

As it has been a while, it is possible my latest fix no longer works either.
I haven't tested the ASX lately as there are 2 alternatives:
1) Yahoo_JSON
2) AlphaVantage (you may need to put a sleep into the perl code if you have
many stocks).

If you are still interested in modifying F::Q:
a) You will need to program in perl (you must know that already but I'm
saying this for others) and know a little about html.
b) The git repository is here: [2] There is some useful info in the
README.md at the bottom of this page.

[1] https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/pull/82
[2] https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote

Regard, Chris Good