[GNC] Thoughts on Online Quotes documentation

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hello Simon,

Am 30.12.23 um 19:31 schrieb orange at sbutler.co.uk:
>     I built GNUcash a couple of years back on a Raspberry pi, got the
>     quotes working IIRC (I had definitely installed Finance::Quote and even
>     applied an update to a new version), started trying to learn how to use
>     it but ended up not doing anything much with it all for various time
>     related reasons.
> 
>     I've recently built the 5.4 version to have another try at adopting
>     this but the quotes gives me an error.  From what I can gather, things
>     have moved on since my last attempt and quotes via Yahoo are no longer
>     available.  So, I'm looking for what I need to do to get this all
>     working (primarily with UK listed stocks).
> 
>     I haven't found a simple guide to follow and, as per Jim's
>     observations, the wiki just doesn't seem to cover the required
>     information and still talks about Yahoo.  It isn't helping at all with
>     my level of confusion!

what is wrong with yahoo_json? It is still part of Finance::Quote 
Version 1.59. Did you mix it with the former yahoo [by CSV] module?

>     A revamp of the documentation in this area, with a simple guide to the
>     current situation and what is required, would be greatly appreciated
>     and would be a great help to adoption by newbies like myself.

Did you read the official doc
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v5/C/gnucash-manual/finance-quote.html
or only the user contributed wiki page?

>     I would like to thank Jim for the suggestions and all those involved in
>     making GNUcash available.
> 
>     All the best
>     Simon

Regards
Frank