[GNC] Security pricing sources

[David Carlson]

I forgot to qualify my comment with the fact that I do not know how to find
and edit that YahooJSON.pm file in Windows 10 or 11.

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 5:17 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Kalpesh,
>
> I cannot speak to your specific question, but I can report that I am
> running GnuCash 4.8 in Ubuntu 22.04, and I was able to successfully find
> and edit the YahooJSON.pm file (as root) per Bruce Schuck's instructions in
> the "...throwing unauthorized error" thread of this maillist.  Doing that
> restores functionality of the Finance:Quote module within GnuCash.
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 5:02 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> wrote:
>
>> As most of you know yahoo_json has gone broken which IMHO was really the
>> only free source for people like me who just needed end-of-day prices.
>> While
>> I've gotten around to it with able to gather the data via custom Python
>> script and import it in, I like to directly integrate and interface with
>> the
>> GNC to pull prices from the web scraping Yahoo. I noticed that there is
>> not
>> a "custom" source I can specify for price download, in additional to many
>> of
>> them greyed out (Vanguard source would have been great as quite a number
>> of
>> mutual funds I track are with them).  So two question, how easy is it for
>> someone who is somewhat familiar with programming to directly wire-up and
>> interface with it and how can the greyed out sources be enabled? I am on
>> Windows 11 with 4.14 GNC but willing to tackle on 5.x version.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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