[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[Bruno Acklin]

Hi John,

Thanks so much for all the work you do supporting us and your diligent test of the Yahoo_json script!

I have restarted my Mac and Gnucash. The price quote keeps failing on my desktop and laptop test systems.

I keep getting the 500 server error when I use the Terminal command:
gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json aapl

But I get another message and hint when I use the helper command:
gnc-fq-helper yahoo_json aapl

Can't locate Date/Manip.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Date::Manip module) (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.18 /Network/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.18 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.18.2 /System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.18 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.18 .) at /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-helper line 29.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-helper line 29.

Did a MacOS update change something in.my working Perl configuration, and do you have any recommendations on how to fix this?

Thanks, Bruno

> On Mar 20, 2019, at 5:26 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> Bruno,
> 
> I just tested, works fine for me:
> $ Argus:/Users/john> gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json AAPL
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: AAPL                 <=== required
>      date: 03/20/2019           <=== recommended
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
>      last: 188.16               <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price:                      <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> A 500 server error means a glitch at Yahoo!, not anything to do with Finance::Quote. They'd obviously resolved it by the time you used your browser.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Mar 20, 2019, at 3:43 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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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