[GNC] Stock quotes

[Derek Atkins]

Are you sure that ALL your securities are set to yahoo_json?
If only ONE is set elsewhere, it wont work and you'll get this error.

-derek

On Fri, May 24, 2019 7:24 am, Steve wrote:
> Ever since Yahoo shut down their service, I have not been able to get
> any stock quotes. I had been running a very old version, 2.6.15, I
> think, so I didn't try to resolve the issue but now I have updated to
> 3.4 and I still have the same problem.
>
> I have checked that I have the necessary version of Perl and
> gnc-fq-dump installed and I changed all my securities to retrieve
> quotes using yahoo_jason. From the command line I can get a quote:
>
> $ gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json googl
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol: googl                <=== required
>       date: 05/17/2019           <=== recommended
>   currency: USD                  <=== required
>       last: 1168.78              <=\
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price:                      <=/
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
>
> but when I try from inside GNC I get the "Unknown Error" popup. Are
> there any debug logs I can look at to see what is going on? Perhaps I
> have too many securities? Is there a way to request just one from
> inside GNC?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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