[GNC] Cannot get online quotes

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 25, 2020, at 12:49 AM, Emilio Dorigatti <emilio.dorigatti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to setup online quotes as per the guide [1]. I am at the latest version
> 
> # gnc-fq-update
> Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
>   Database was generated on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:29:03 GMT
> Date::Manip is up to date (6.82).
> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.49).
> 
> And no errors are returned from check:
> 
> $ gnc-fq-check
> ("1.49" "adig" "aex" "aiahk" "alphavantage" "amfiindia" "asegr" "asx" "aufunds" "australia" "bamosz" "bet" "bmonesbittburns" "bourso" "bse" "bsero" "canada" "canadamutual" "citywire" "cominvest" "cse" "deka" "dutch" "dwsfunds" "europe" "fetch_live_currencies" "fidelity" "fidelity_direct" "fidelityfixed" "financecanada" "finanzpartner" "finland" "fool" "france" "ftfunds" "ftportfolios" "ftportfolios_direct" "fundlibrary" "goldmoney" "greece" "hex" "hu" "hufund" "hungary" "hustock" "iexcloud" "indiamutual" "known_currencies" "lerevenu" "maninv" "morningstar" "morningstarau" "morningstarch" "morningstarjp" "mstaruk" "nasdaq" "nyse" "nz" "nzx" "platinum" "romania" "seb_funds" "sixfunds" "sixshares" "stockhousecanada_fund" "tdefunds" "tdwaterhouse" "tiaacref" "tnetuk" "troweprice" "troweprice_direct" "trustnet" "tsp" "tsx" "uk_unit_trusts" "ukfunds" "unionfunds" "usa" "usfedbonds" "vanguard" "vwd" "yahoo_json" "yahoo_yql" "za" "za_unittrusts")
> 
> However, dumping fails with all sources:
> 
> $ gnc-fq-dump -v europe AMZN
> 
> Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/HTML/TreeBuilder.pm line 108.
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> 
>     symbol: AMZN (deduced)       <=== required
> 
>       date: ** missing **        <=== recommended
> 
>   currency: ** missing **        <=== required
> 
>       last: **missing**          <=\
> 
>        nav: **missing**          <=== one of these
> 
>      price: **missing**          <=/
> 
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> ** This stock quote cannot be used by GnuCash!
> 
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock AMZN
> 
> stock           field  value
> 
> -----           -----  -----
> 
> AMZN         errormsg: HTTP session failed
> 
> AMZN             last: **missing**
> 
> AMZN              nav: **missing**
> 
> AMZN            price: **missing**
> 
> AMZN          success: 0
> 
> And obviously fails within GnuCash, too. I don't know how I am supposed to specify the currency? Or perhaps there are connection issues to the servers?

Why would you expect to retrieve a quote for a US stock (Amazon.com) from the French, Finnish, Greek, or Romanian exchanges, those being the modules the export a "europe" method?

What happens if you do

gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json AMZN

?

Regards,
John Ralls