[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[Bruno Acklin]

Hi John, et all,

I am adding to this string as I experience a similar, possibly related problem:

I am using Gnucash on OSX Mojave 10.14.3. Alphavantage never really worked for me and importantly, crashed Gnucash instead of reporting stocks that could not be retrieved.

Then in February I switched all my stocks tickers to yahoo_json, verifying them with the fnc-gc-dump procedure and it worked great, last on 3/8/19.

Now, since 3/17/19, it suddenly fails all tickers, and fnc-gc-dump reports this error:
Error retrieving quote for aapl. Attempt to fetch the URL https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl resulted in HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)

But, a browser call to the same website
https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl <https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl>

returns the data properly:
{"quoteResponse":{"result":[{"language":"en-US","region":"US","quoteType":"EQUITY","quoteSourceName":"Nasdaq Real Time Price","currency":"USD","priceHint":2,"postMarketChangePercent":-0.09571613,"postMarketTime":1553116993,"postMarketChange":-0.18009949,"regularMarketChangePercent":0.873857,"regularMarketDayRange":"184.73 - 189.49","regularMarketPreviousClose":186.53,"bid":187.83,"ask":187.98,"bidSize":13,"askSize":13,"messageBoardId":"finmb_24937","fullExchangeName":"NasdaqGS","longName":”Apple ...

I surmise that the URL response may have changed so the yahoo_json parser does not recognize the information, but I am not a SW person familiar with PERL..
Any suggestion what might have changed, and what to fix?

Thanks, Bruno
> On Feb 22, 2019, at 7:11 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 20, 2019, at 7:06 AM, GB <galaxy-bars at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you John Ralls, I think I've narrowed down the problem.
>> 
>> I unchecked all of the securities that had source of "tsp" and I was able to
>> get all the quotes from yahoo_json.  Then I used a terminal window to run
>> "./gnc-fq-dump -v tsp c" and received response of:
>> "No results found for stock C."  The funds are C,S,I.  I have used this for
>> at least several years and have not had any problems, this has been
>> appearing recently.  When I include the tsp funds in the security editor, it
>> causes all of the other security quotes to fail, even those from other
>> sources.
>> 
>> Any clues as to what I should do next?  
> 
> It looks like https://www.tsp.gov/investmentfunds/shareprice/sharePriceHistory.shtml has an invalid redirect, so there's nothing to retrieve. Unless that's fixed you won't be able to use Finance::Quote to retrieve prices. I found https://www.tsp.gov/InvestmentFunds/FundPerformance/index.html where you can download a CSV that you might be able to import into GnuCash.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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