[GNC] Alpha Vantage problems

Adrian Holbrook adrian.holbrook at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 04:20:49 EDT 2020


I have a list of about 50 stocks that used to work and do not work now - a
small selection

AAL.L
AV.L
AZN.L
BATS.L
BBY.L
BDEV.L
BEZ.L
BILN.L
BKG.L
BME.L
BP.L
BRBY.L
BT-A.L
BVIC.L
BWY.L

Regards

Adrian
Adrian Holbrook
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:12 AM Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Good to know. Can you give an example of a stock and the symbol you used
> that used to work please?
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 13:06:11 +0100
> From: Robert Dean <bob at bobandgilldean.me.uk>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Alpha Vantage problems
> Message-ID:
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have also lost access to Alphavantage stocks on LSE. It last worked on
> 24 June, but failed on the 25th. I have checked both my stocks with
> gnc-fq-dump and neither work, so I have changed to Yahoo-json.
>
> I'm using Gnucash 3.10 on Fedora 32.
>
> Regards
> Bob Dean
>
> On 07/07/2020 12:01, Chris Good wrote:
> > Hi Adrian, how are you getting quotes from excel? Have you got your
> > alphavantage API key specified in GnuCash preferences?
> >
> > I suggest the next stage would be to test each of the stocks you want
> > to use Alphavantage for, with gnc-fq-dump.
> >
> > Regards, Chris Good
> >
> > On Tue., 7 Jul. 2020, 7:39 pm Adrian Holbrook,
> > <adrian.holbrook at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Chris, I think my installation of Finance;;Quote is working
> >> fine as I get quotes from other sources such as Morningstar and Yahoo
> >> JSON without any problem. I think it must be an Alphavantage problem
> >> and the next stage is to try and get quotes using excel and see if
> >> that works.  In the short term I have changed my source to Yahoo JSON
> >> and that is working. I would just like to be able to get Alphavantage
> >> working as well so that if one fails I have a backup source.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Adrian
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Message: 3
> >>> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:58:33 +0100
> >>> From: Adrian Holbrook <adrian.holbrook at gmail.com>
> >>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> Subject: [GNC] Alpha Vantage problems
> >>> Message-ID:
> >>>          <CALZ=gTfie0bn2Nbgbvkvw8Wn6O3oS+nxisihEtB2BvU+mZHm=
> >>> A at mail.gmail.com>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >>>
> >>> I have been using Alphvantage for about a year now to get quotes
> >>> without any problems - I had to add in the 15 second delay that was
> >>> suggested to stop it failing - but since then it has been 100%
> >>> reliable. I normally download around 50 prices at a time about once
> >>> a week. The last successful download was on June 12th and since then
> >>> all attempts have failed.
> >>>
> >>> All my shares are on the LSE. I have not checked trying to get
> >>> quotes from NYSE but that would be my next test.
> >>> I am using Gnucash 4.0 and Finance::Quote 1.49
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Adrian
> >>>
> >>> Hi Adrian,
> >>>
> >>> Please follow instructions at
> >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Trouble_Shooting
> >>>
> >>> Regards, Chris Good
>
>


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