[GNC] Finance::Quotes stopped working for me

[John Ralls]

Bruno,

No, there's no reason to install a fake-linux package manager.

You said "Library/Perl", does that mean /Users/backlin/Library/Perl or /Library/Perl? It should be the latter. If it's the former, what's in /Library/Perl?

Assuming that it *is* /Library/Perl, there are several packages that should be there and aren't. I suggest
  sudo rm -rf /Library/Perl/5.18/Finance
  sudo rm -rf ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote*
  sudo rm -rf -/.cpan/build/Date-Manip*
  sudo cpan -i Date::Manip
  sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote

Check the output of those last two to make sure that they complete successfully. Reinstalling Finance::Quote should pull in the other packages. After it's done /Library/Perl/5.18 should contain Date, DateTime, Finance, LWP, and LWP.pm in addition to the modules already there.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 24, 2019, at 2:36 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Sorry for the omission and delay.
> 
> No, I have none of these “fake-Linux package managers”(?) installed - should I?
> 
> The reply to backlin$ which perl is
> /usr/bin/perl
> 
> In usr/bin I find two entries:
> perl and
> perl5.18
> 
> The directory Library/Perl contains
> /5.18
> 	/Darwin-thread-multi-2level
> 	/Finance
> 	/HTML
> 	/JSON
> 	/Mozilla
> 	/AppendToPath
> 	/JSON.pm
> /Updates
> 	/5.18.2
> 		/Darwin-thread-multi-2level
> 
> Looking up contents of 
> ~/.cpan/build/ :
> Date-Manip-6.75-JzZ9Wt		ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.34-_6iXcq
> Date-Manip-6.76-9mWyaN		Finance-Quote-1.47-_BUlzK
> Date-Manip-6.76-NE8c76		Finance-Quote-1.47-nChsgf
> Date-Manip-6.76-QNnn65		HTML-TableExtract-2.15-dP4w2A
> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.34-695wh2	JSON-4.02-RrPsdw
> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.34-DVwu8U	Mozilla-CA-20180117-TgJL7x
> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.34-U01uzs
> 
> Trying your suggestion with /stockdump.pm for both fnq builds I get a delayed, identical result, even if I misspell aap(l) for a non-existing ticker:
> 
> backlin$ ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.47-_BUlzK/Examples/stockdump.pl yahoo_json aapl
> $VAR1 = {
>          'aaplsymbol' => 'aapl',
>          'aaplsuccess' => 0,
>          'aaplerrormsg' => 'Error retrieving quote for aapl. Attempt to fetch the URL https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl resulted in HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)'
> 
> and
> backlin$ ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.47-nChsgf/Examples/stockdump.pl yahoo_json aap
> $VAR1 = {
>          'aapsymbol' => 'aap',
>          'aapsuccess' => 0,
>          'aaperrormsg' => 'Error retrieving quote for aap. Attempt to fetch the URL https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aap resulted in HTTP response 500 (Internal Server Error)'
>        };
> 
> I am hoping this might give you a clue. I have no idea what could have gone wrong. Just that finance quote stopped working on my desktop and my laptop the same week, when I did not do anything on my system, not even reboot, other than changing the network access updating the router configuration.
> 
> Thanks, and best, Bruno
> 
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 7:46 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
>> 
>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
>> 
>> Curl and your browser working exonerates your router.
>> 
>> *Re*-installing perl would I think be challenging; it's provided as part of MacOS so I'd think that the only safe way to do it would be to reinstall the OS.
>> 
>> That said, do you have any of the fake-Linux package managers--Homebrew, MacPorts, or Fink--installed?
>> 
>> What's the output of running
>> which perl
>> from the command line?
>> How about 
>> ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.47-XXXXXX/Examples/stockdump.pl yahoo_json aapl
>> (the XXXXXX bit is random characters that depends on the installation).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Bruno Acklin <backlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> No, I get an instant reply with content:
>>> {"quoteResponse":{"result":[{"language":"en-US","region":"US","quoteType":"EQUITY","quoteSourceName":"Nasdaq Real Time Price","currency":"USD","regularMarketPrice":191.05,..
>>> 
>>> Same if I use the fnc query from my browser:
>>> https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl
>>> 
>>> Any other ideas, especially related to the router change?
>>> 
>>> Is there a point and safe way in reinstalling all of PERL on MacOS Mojave?
>>> 
>>> Best, Bruno
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 12:05 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=aapl
>>> 
>> 
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