[GNC] Problem getting Finance::Quote working

[Bruce Schuck]

On 1/4/25 09:32:28 -0500, Kalpesh wrote:

> You can provide well know api-key of:

> NOTAREALAPIKEY

> as the key for Alphavantage in order to silence that superfluous
> message being emanated from F::Q to GNC provided that you are NOT
> using that module to retrieve any quotes. It has been working for
> yours truly for many many years...

Using a random key for AlphaVantage is something I mentioned a while 
ago. I reported that AlphaVantage has a bug in their code that accepts 
any random string (except the "demo" key used for their samples). For 
Kalpesh that means if any of his F::Q queries require a currency 
conversion, it will work as long as he hasn't reached the 25/day limit.

I just verified it still works, so AV has not yet discovered or 
corrected their bug (or as devs would call it, an "undocumented feature").

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When I first discovered this I modified AlphaVantage.pm to create a 
random string for every lookup. I was hoping to subvert the daily limit. 
Unfortunately, while AV's key authentication allows any string, I 
discovered that they must also be keeping track of source IP. Testing 
more than the daily limit with different keys from the same source IP 
would fail. Even if I spaced queries apart to avoid the throttle limit.

If I recall I helped a GnuCash user figure out that there was another 
system in his office/home that was making F::Q AlphaVantage queries 
(appears as same WAN IP to AlphaVantage). These queries caused him to 
get the AV "over your limit" response while normally using GnuCash.

Bruce S.