[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

Thu Mar 21 15:17:48 EDT 2019

Probably not. What would change is the Perl version and consequently what folders @INC points to, but that hasn't changed in the last 5 versions, it's been 5.18 since Yosemite.

gnc-fq-dump doesn't use Date::Manip, but if your Date::Manip is broken it's quite possible that your Finance::Quote is too. They should be installed in /Library/Perl/5.18. I suggest deleting them and running the Finance Quote Update again; if you're comfortable with the command line you can just use `sudo /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-update` from there, that's all that Finance Quote Update does.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 21, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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