[GNC] ASX Online quotes problem

[Geoff]

Hi Richard

Yes, that is confusing.  It is possible that this discrepancy in 
behaviour may be due to you having two instances of Perl installed - the 
later one is seen by your command line scripts and the earlier (out of 
date) one is seen by your GnuCash GUI.  I make this suggestion as I 
recall seeing other GnuCash problems being reported due to this.  I am 
mainly a Windows user so I can't really help you to trouble shoot.

Anyway, to upgrade, you can try the "gnc-fq-update" Perl script, which 
should get the latest version (1.51) from CPAN:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Finance::Quote

Finally, I have attached a screenshot of my setup to retrieve prices for 
ASX securities.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
=====

On 30/06/2022 6:26 pm, Richard Spinney wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> I am little bit confused though, the command line perl scripts I am 
> using with the ASX as a source work fine. But moreover, they work when I 
> use *different* sources (e.g. yahoo as JSON), but then they don't work 
> in gnucash itself - I.e. the issue is there when I specifically avoid 
> the ASX as a source. Or have I missed something?
> 
> If I do have to update that module do you have any links or similar you 
> could point me to?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> R.
> 
> On Thu, 30 June 2022, 18:21 Geoff, <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     =====
> 
>     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 <http://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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