[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

Fri Mar 22 14:47:42 EDT 2019

Thanks John,

I deleted Library/Perl/Finance and reinstalled finance::quote using the sudo command.
Installed ok, but no change on errors and messages.

The only change I made between finance::Quote running and now failing was replacing my router from an old Apple TimeCapsule to a U-verse PACE 5268AC modem..

Is there a TCP or UDP port, or another router setting that FQ, respectively JSON needs, which may not be set properly by default?

Thanks, Bruno

> On Mar 21, 2019, at 12:17 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> 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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