[GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad

[Brad Morrison]

Hi GnuCash Users & Developers,  

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes - I do not use
Finance::Quote, but it seems like there have been a lot of issues
brought up lately with the quote fetching.  

It also seems like most of the issues have been with users that use
Yahoo.  

Have those folks that have experienced issues with Yahoo Finance's
online quotes experienced similar issues with the other sources for
online quotes?
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Finance::Quote_Sources  

I use Google Finance when looking up some financial data and it appears
that Google Finance is also listed in that table of online sources -
does anyone experience the same issues with quote retrieval with Google
Finance?  

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/184281707/what-is-the-format-for-preferred-stock-securities?hl=en
- I noted that Tom Texiera included this link in his 6/12/25 email to
the GnuCash Users email list.  

In addition, have the basics been addressed: are those experiencing
issues with F::Q using the current version of Finance::Quote (1.65 -
https://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/) AND the current version of
GnuCash (5.11 - https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml), as well as a
supported version of their preferred operating system?  

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Thanks, 

Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ &
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On 2025-06-19 06:13, Kalpesh Patel wrote:

> I am seeing same issue in Python based libraries as well. I'll wait a bit before I take a stab at trying to figure out what could be the new controls put in place. I have a hunch that they are performing a major update to their web properties and want them to stabilize it. They definitely take few weeks to rollout all their changes across all geo zones as they are deliberate in how they rollout to each geo zones, and then fix issues as they prop up. 
> 
> For now, it will have to be multiple updates consecutively to cover all securities via GNC that depend on Yahoo JSON for quotes retrieval.
> 
> From: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 8:51 PM
> To: 'Gnucash Users' <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>; Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad
> 
> It does seem to be both random and intermittent.  Perhaps a slower pace might be more stable?  Or we could institute retrying?
> 
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 05:23:45 PM EDT, Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net <mailto:kalpesh.patel at usa.net> > wrote: 
> 
> They may have instituted some sort of controls designed to limit number of calls. Yahoo JSON has been and will always be a whack-a-mole game ... rightfully.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com <mailto:dgpickett at aol.com> > 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 10:40 PM
> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> >
> Subject: [GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad
> 
> Today we moved to a random minority of failing symbols, not consistent each pass.  4 passes and I got all my symbols!
> 
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