[GNC] [GNC-dev] Finance Quote 1.50 release candidate 1 is available

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 9, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> it seems currency retrieval does not work with finance-quote 1.50rc1 in 
> gnucash. currency-lookup.pl works though. I understand it is using 
> alphavantage.
> 
> Can you have a quick look at https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/
> issues/173 ?
> 
> Is that because of  lack of support for the alphavantage key? For stocks this 
> seem to work though
> 
> rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$  echo '(alphavantage 
> "MSFT")' | gnc-fq-helper
> (("MSFT" (symbol . "MSFT") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2021-03-08 12:00:00") (last . 
> #e227.3900) (currency . "USD")))
> rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ gnc-fq-dump alphavantage 
> MSFT                
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: MSFT                 <=== required
>      date: 03/08/2021           <=== recommended
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
>      last: 227.3900             <=\       
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price:                      <=/        
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> rd at h370:/usr/share/doc/libfinance-quote-perl/examples$ 

Ranier,

You need to set ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY in the shell in order to use gnc-fq-dump or gnc-fq-helper. To use it in GnuCash you set it in Preferences>Online Quotes.

Regards,
John Ralls