[GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

Brad, 

Take a look at the list archives, why don't you?

You'll see that over the years, many of the sources that F::Q has used have been problematic. Yahoo!, AlphaVantage, and others that I'm forgetting all have broken at one time or another, some permanently. 

F::Q as a web scraper has had to adjust to changes that the providers make to their sites, and the F::Q team has worked valiantly over the years to keep it working for users. 

⁣David T. ​

On Jun 19, 2025, 11:16 PM, at 11:16 PM, Brad Morrison <bradmorrison at sonic.net> wrote:
>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?  
>
>---
>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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