[GNC] Unable to download more than 5 currency exchange rates

Davy Roid davyroid at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 06:32:21 EDT 2020


I am running GC 3.10 and online quote 1.49

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 17:40 Frank H. Ellenberger <
frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am 26.04.20 um 10:36 schrieb davygc:
> > Again, I am new to GC.
>
> Welcome here!
> It is useful to tell us, which version of GnuCash and, in this case,
> Finance::Quote you are running.
>
> > I am trying to setup the chart of account and is
> > facing a problem - unable to download more than 5 currencies exchange
> rate.
> > I did some experiments. I was unable to download the exchange rate after
> I
> > removed the Alpha Vantage API key. Therefore, I guess the exchange rate
> is
> > handled by Alpha Vantage. But on the other hand, I was able to download 5
> > currencies + 2 stock price through Alphavantage. When I disabled some of
> the
> > currencies, then I will be able to download the rest (still up to a
> total of
> > 5).
> >
> > It seems that the quote for exchange rate is not handled by
> Alphavantage.pm
> > and the cause of the problem is the limitation of 5 quote per minute.
>
> See https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/
>
> > Any suggestion?
>
> IIRC, recent versions have a sufficient delay between the queries to
> fulfill the limitation.
>
> > Also, which script is responsible for downloading the exchange quote?
>
> See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Frank
>


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