[GNC] ASX Online quotes problem

[Geoff]

Hi Richard

The ASX did a major web upgrade back in 2020 that broke Version 1.49 of 
Finance::Quote.  If you want to use the ASX as your data source for 
Australian listed securities then you will need to upgrade that Perl module.


Regards

Geoff
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On 30/06/2022 5:44 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having some trouble fetching online quotes for Australian stocks in
> Gnucash.
> 
> My versions are:
> 
> Gnucash Version: 4.11
> Build ID: Flathub 4.11
> Finance::Quote: 1.49
> 
> running on Linux.
> 
> Every other security price fetch seems to work fine. For instance, this
> works for US stocks when input into the security editor:
> 
> Symbol: AAPL
> Source: alphavantage
> 
> as do currency quotes.
> 
> However, I get the following error message:
> 
> "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items ASX:VGS ..."
> 
> where ASX is just my "type" categorisation", if I try any ASX stock/etf
> (here using VGS as an example) with any permutation of
> 
> Symbol: VGS, VGS.AX, ASX:VGS, ASX.VGS
> Source: Alphavantage US, Australian Stock Exchange AU,Yahoo as JSON
> 
> For reference, I have got the underlying command line scripts working and I
> *can* get Australian quotes using them (in addition to currency and US
> stock quotes that *do* work in Gnucash). For instance the following
> commands all return sensible quotes
> 
> 
> perl gnc-fq-dump -v asx vgs
> perl gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json VGS.ax
> perl gnc-fq-dump -v australia vgs
> 
> I'm unclear if this is because of something I am doing wrong with the
> details in the security editor or if there is something else I'm missing.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> R.
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