[GNC] Can anyone help with this issue please - GNC-FQ Not able to collect data

[Chris Good]

Hi David,

>From memory Finance::Quote 1.51 is broken and the nice maintainer is working
on 1.52.
The problems were to do with missing dependencies for some cpan modules.
In the meantime you might try, from a cmd.exe window:
  cpan upgrade
to upgrades all modules.

Note that the correct syntax to use gnc-fq-dump to get an exchange rate is:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin
set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=__Your_Actual_Key__
perl gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR

See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Helper_Scripts

Another thing to check is your version of Strawberry perl. Use
 perl -v
to check the version.
Maybe you need to upgrade to the latest Strawberry perl.
You can uninstall your current Strawberry perl from Start, Settings, Apps.

Regards, Chris Good

Message: 2
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:30:43 +0100
From: "David.Romano at davidjromano.com" <david.romano at davidjromano.com>
To: Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Can anyone help with this issue please - GNC-FQ Not
	able to collect data
Message-ID: <12969517-6727-42C5-A202-04B3B75F8975 at davidjromano.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=us-ascii

Thanks Geoff, yes I think I did though I will recheck this.

I've also tried this with an alternative key in case the first was the
problem.

David
Sent from my iPhone

> On 18 Jul 2021, at 13:55, Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David
> 
> Did you remember to set your alphavantage key as an environment variable
when testing with Perl from the command line?
> 
> Can you try this:
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>set 
> ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=__Your_Actual_Key__
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>echo %ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY% 
> __Your_Actual_Key__
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>echo (currency "USD" "GBP") | perl 
> gnc-fq-helper (("USD" (symbol . "USD") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2021-03-10 
> 08:40:01") (last . #e0.72002) (currency . "GBP")))
> 
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>echo (currency "EUR" "RON") | perl 
> gnc-fq-helper (("EUR" (symbol . "EUR") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2021-03-10 
> 08:45:05") (last . #e4.8841) (currency . "RON")))
> 
> 
> Also, it is normal to get the blank command window when doing Get Quotes
on Windows.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Geoff
> =====
> 
>> On 18/07/2021 8:04 pm, david.romano at davidjromano.com wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with GNC-FQ not being able to retrieve currency 
>> data for the GBP / EUR currency pair.
>>  I had previously used FQ back when the data source was Yahoo, but 
>> when the Yahoo died I stopped using it.
>>  I now need to pick up GBP and EUR rates so I've installed the 
>> components required to get the Alphavantage feed to work - or so I hoped!
>>  Here's where I've got to so far:
>>  1.    I updated GNU Cash to current 4.6.
>> 2.    I installed Strawberry Perl version 5.32.1.1
>> 3.    I'm Running Windows 10 Professional 21H1 build 19043.110
>> 4.    I added my aphhavantage key in Preferences \ Online Quotes
>> 5.    I ran perl gnc-fq-check and got the following result:
>>  C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-check  ("1.51" "aex" 
>> "alphavantage" "amfiindia" "asegr" "asx" "aufunds" "australia"
>> "bamosz" "bet" "bloomberg" "bourso" "bse" "bseindia" "canada"
"canadamutual"
>> "comdirect" "cse" "deka" "dutch" "dwsfunds" "europe"
"fetch_live_currencies"
>> "fidelity" "fidelity_direct" "finanzpartner" "fondsweb" "fool" "ftfunds"
>> "fundata" "fundlibrary" "goldmoney" "greece" "hu" "hufund" "hungary"
>> "hustock" "iexcloud" "india" "indiamutual" "known_currencies"
>> "morningstarau" "morningstarjp" "mstaruk" "nasdaq" "nseindia" "nyse"
"nzx"
>> "onvista" "oslobors" "romania" "seb_funds" "six" "tiaacref" "tmx"
>> "tradeville" "troweprice" "troweprice_direct" "tsp" "ukfunds"
"unionfunds"
>> "usa" "usfedbonds" "yahoo_json" "za")
>>  6.    I ran perl gnc-fq-update and got the following result:
>>  C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-update  Database was 
>> generated on Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:42:13 GMT Date::Manip is up to date 
>> (6.85).
>> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.51).
>>  7.    I tested the alphavantage data feed using this URL string and got
>> the following result:
>>  
>> https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE&fro
>> m_curre ncy=GBP&to_currency=EUR&apikey=[MYKEY}
>>  Realtime Currency Exchange Rate
>> 1. From_Currency Code       "GBP"
>> 2. From_Currency Name      "British Pound Sterling"
>> 3. To_Currency Code  "EUR"
>> 4. To_Currency Name "Euro"
>> 5. Exchange Rate       "1.16550000"
>> 6. Last Refreshed       "2021-07-18 09:00:04"
>> 7. Time Zone    "UTC"
>> 8. Bid Price       "1.16544000"
>> 9. Ask Price       "1.16555000"
>>  All looked good so I set the two currencies GBP and EUR to get 
>> online quotes in the Security Editor.
>>  I then switched to the Price Database and clicked Get Quotes only to 
>> get the following failure message:
>>    Interestingly, when I click the Get Quotes button (and when I open 
>> GNU Cash) Perl pops a blank CMD window  
>> (C:Strawbery\perl\bin\perl.exe) and the window closes without being
populated.
>>  I then created a new alphavantage key which I updated in GNC 
>> preferences, but I got the same result when I ran Get Quotes.
>>  I next tried the following code example:
>>  cd \Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin
>> set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=[MYKEY]
>> perl gnc-fq-dump alphavantage CSCO
>>  Which generated the following output:
>>  C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump alphavantage EUR
>>  syswrite() on unopened filehandle GEN0 at 
>> C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/IO/Handle.pm line 459.
>> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>>     symbol: EUR (deduced)        <=== required
>>     date: ** missing **        <=== recommended
>>    currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>>     last: **missing**          <=\
>>     nav: **missing**          <=== one of these
>>     price: **missing**          <=/
>>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>>  My immediate thought was that either GNC or PERL were being blocked 
>> by Win
>> 10 security so I explicitly added both Perl Interpreter and GNC to 
>> the apps allowed through Windows Firewall - both private and public. 
>> This made no difference.
>>  I then wondered if the problem was IP blocking so tried again over a 
>> VPN, thus a different IP. This made no difference.
>>  I'm not a Perl programmer so I'm now pretty much stuck. Possibly 
>> I've missed something very obvious or else there is something strange 
>> going on here which I don't understand.
>>  If anyone can suggest how to diagnose the issue from here, or better 
>> still fix the issue, I'd very much appreciate the help.