[GNC] Problem getting Finance::Quote working

[David H]

Have you setup your Alpha Vantage API key the output warns you about ?
Preferences >> Online Quotes -
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Alphavantage

 00:58:05  WARN <gnc.price-quotes> [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No
Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based
quotes won't work

Cheers David H.


On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 at 12:51, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today I installed gnucash and am trying to get fetch quotes from the
> internet, and I am having troubles getting it to work.  I am not
> subscribed, so please CC.
>
> When I try the `gnucash-cli --quotes info', it seems to work:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ /gnu/store/fq2bix6lr0rls6vld4xwb1dchkkdjnx1-gnucash-5.9/bin/gnucash-cli
> --quotes info
> * 00:56:27  WARN <gnc.price-quotes> [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No
> Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based
> quotes won't work.
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.64.
> Finance::Quote sources:
> aex          alphavantage              amfiindia    asegr        asx
> aufunds      australia    bamosz       bats         bet          bloomberg
> borsa_italiana            bourso       bse          bseindia     bvb
> canada       comdirect    consorsbank  cse          deka         dutch
> dwsfunds     europe       fetch_live_currencies     financeapi
> finanzpartner             fondsweb     fool         france       ftfunds
> goldmoney    googleweb    greece       hu           hufund       hungary
> hustock      india        indiamutual  known_currencies
> marketwatch
> morningstarau             morningstarch             morningstarjp
> morningstaruk             mstaruk      nasdaq       nseindia     nyse
> nzx          onvista      oslobors     poland       romania      seb_funds
> sinvestor    six          stockdata    stooq        tesouro_direto
> tiaacref     tmx          tradegate    tradeville   treasurydirect
> troweprice   troweprice_direct         tsp          tsx          twelvedata
> ukfunds      unionfunds   usa          xetra        yahoo_json   yahoojson
> yahooweb     za
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> However when I try to actually get some quotes, I get this "error":
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ /gnu/store/fq2bix6lr0rls6vld4xwb1dchkkdjnx1-gnucash-5.9/bin/gnucash-cli
> --quotes dump australia CML
> * 00:58:05  WARN <gnc.price-quotes> [GncFQQuoteSource::set_api_key()] No
> Alpha Vantage API key set, currency quotes and other AlphaVantage based
> quotes won't work.
> CML Finance::Quote returned no data and set no error.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Which seems weird.  The helper itself appears to work:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ echo '{"defaultcurrency": "USD","australia": {"CML": ""}}' |
> /gnu/store/fq2bix6lr0rls6vld4xwb1dchkkdjnx1-gnucash-5.9/bin/finance-quote-wrapper
> -f
> {"australia":{"CML":{"name":"CONNECTED MINERALS
> LIMITED","success":1,"last":0.2,"method":"asx","price":0.2,"type":"","net":0,"errormsg":"","bid":0.18,"symbol":"CML","p_change":"0","volume":1019,"currency":"AUD","exchange":"Australian
> Securities Exchange","ask":0.2}}}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When I strace the `gnucash-cli' binary, it seems it does get the JSON
> back:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ strace -v -s 8192 --
> /gnu/store/fq2bix6lr0rls6vld4xwb1dchkkdjnx1-gnucash-5.9/bin/gnucash-cli
> --quotes dump australia CML
> [..]
> read(15,
> "{\"australia\":{\"CML\":{\"errormsg\":\"\",\"price\":0.2,\"net\":0,\"type\":\"\",\"bid\":0.18,\"success\":1,\"volume\":1019,\"name\":\"CONNECTED
> MINERALS
> LIMITED\",\"method\":\"asx\",\"p_change\":\"0\",\"currency\":\"AUD\",\"ask\":0.2,\"last\":0.2,\"symbol\":\"CML\"}}}\n",
> 512) = 224
> [..]
> write(1, "CML Finance::Quote returned no data and set no error.\n", 54CML
> Finance::Quote returned no data and set no error.
> ) = 54
> [..]
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I am on 5.9 version:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ /gnu/store/fq2bix6lr0rls6vld4xwb1dchkkdjnx1-gnucash-5.9/bin/gnucash-cli
> --version
> GnuCash 5.9
> Build ID: 5.9+(2024-09-28)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Would anyone have some suggestion what might be wrong and how I can fix
> this?
>
> Thank you and have a nice day,
> Tomas Volf
>
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