[GNC] Finance quote troubleshooting

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Sep 9 22:30:11 EDT 2020



> On Sep 9, 2020, at 6:44 AM, Andreas Vyrides <vyrasv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I have been having some trouble retrieving currency quotes from Perl using Finance::Quote. I am only interested in currency exchange rates (have not attempted using anything else). I have been going through all steps of the wiki, such as running "Install online price Retrieval", even changing my alpha-vantage key by requesting a new one. I have also tried to get quotes from outside gnucash by using the terminal with the following result
> 
> "
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>gnucash-cli.exe --quotes get file://C:\Users\EoL\Documents\gnuCash\test\test.gnucash
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.49.
> * 14:35:49  WARN <gnc.scm> Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
> CURRENCY:USD
>   CURRENCY:EUR
> Continuing with good quotes.
> 
> "
> 
> In my attempts to get a single exchange rate from the terminal I get the following results
> 
> "
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump currency EUR GBP
> 1 EUR = <unknown> GBP
> 
> "
> 
> I would like to ensure that I have tried using both API keys in the appropriate "online quote" in the preferences settings, but every time I try to get quotes I get an error with "unable to retrieve quotes for these items: Currency: USD, Currency:EUR"
> 
> I am currently using F::Q v1.49, and gnucash v4.1
> 
> Thank you for your time and all your support

Have you read https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes, in particular https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Trouble_Shooting?

Regards,
John Ralls



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