[GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

Tom Veik tlveik at gmail.com
Fri May 26 20:31:35 EDT 2023


Alphavantage is having issues, completely separate from GnuCash.  I did 
some experimenting today with queries for one mutual fund. GnuCash is 
not involved at all in this test.

Here are responses to several identical queries I made.  One line has 
the date/time of the query, followed by the response to the query.  Look 
at the back and forth nature of the responses I got. Look at the "latest 
trading day" line.

The query:
https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&datatype=json&apikey=********&symbol=VFIAX

5/26/2023 4:16:38 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 4:31:40 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 4:46:41 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 5:01:42 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 5:16:43 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 5:31:44 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "383.8600",
         "03. high": "383.8600",
         "04. low": "383.8600",
         "05. price": "383.8600",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-25",
         "08. previous close": "380.5100",
         "09. change": "3.3500",
         "10. change percent": "0.8804%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 5:46:46 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 6:01:47 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 6:16:48 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 6:31:49 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 6:46:51 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "380.5100",
         "03. high": "380.5100",
         "04. low": "380.5100",
         "05. price": "380.5100",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-24",
         "08. previous close": "383.3100",
         "09. change": "-2.8000",
         "10. change percent": "-0.7305%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 7:01:52 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "383.8600",
         "03. high": "383.8600",
         "04. low": "383.8600",
         "05. price": "383.8600",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-25",
         "08. previous close": "380.5100",
         "09. change": "3.3500",
         "10. change percent": "0.8804%"
     }
}
5/26/2023 7:16:53 PM
{
     "Global Quote": {
         "01. symbol": "VFIAX",
         "02. open": "383.8600",
         "03. high": "383.8600",
         "04. low": "383.8600",
         "05. price": "383.8600",
         "06. volume": "0",
         "07. latest trading day": "2023-05-25",
         "08. previous close": "380.5100",
         "09. change": "3.3500",
         "10. change percent": "0.8804%"
     }
}


On 5/26/2023 4:06 PM, David G. Pickett via gnucash-user wrote:
> I see last night it missed all my funds, so I am running it again.  That worked!  Maybe I will add another run to make sure!  9:15?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Fri, May 26, 2023 4:42 pm
> Subject: Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage
>
> I have seen it fumble, too, not sure if it is FQ or AA.  Funds do their nav some time after 4 eastern, so I do my quotes on cron at midnight.  This also means the 6 minute run time is not a problem.  But silently lost quotes seems like a bad behavior.  Does the code log when the price fetch fails a AA?  It certainly did with Yahoo!
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