[GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad

[Geoff]

Nice work Sherlock Holmes!

On 21/06/2025 10:40 am, Bruce Schuck wrote:
> Thu Jun 19 16:51:08 EDT 2025, Tom Teixeira writes:
> 
>> I also tried "gnucash-cli --quotes dump ..." with bloomberg but 
>> couldn't get any results. The "fool" quote source works for plain 
>> stocks, but doesn't seem to have mutual funds or preferred stocks. 
>> Neither troweprice nor trowprice_direct worked, but did produce error 
>> messages that might lead somewhere. The tiaacref source seemed
>> to hang.
> 
> While taking a quick look, I stumbled on how to look up funds on Fool. 
> Seems that inserting a "." before the character does the trick. Here I 
> changed "FCNTX" to "FCNT.X". I am thinking of having the module check 
> for a 5-char symbol ending in "X" and changing it to ".X" for the lookup.
> 
>      % ~/.cpan/build/Finance-Quote-1.65-0/Examples/stockdump.pl fool FCNT.X
>      $VAR1 = {
>                'FCNT.Xopen' => '22.38',
>                'FCNT.Xname' => 'Fidelity Contrafund',
>                'FCNT.Xdate' => '06/18/2025',
>                'FCNT.Xhigh' => '22.38',
>                'FCNT.Xcurrency' => 'USD',
>                'FCNT.Xsymbol' => 'FCNT.X',
>                'FCNT.Xvolume' => undef,
>                'FCNT.Xlow' => '22.38',
>                'FCNT.Xsuccess' => 1,
>                'FCNT.Xisodate' => '2025-06-18',
>                'FCNT.Xlast' => '22.38',
>                'FCNT.Xmethod' => 'fool'
>              };
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't find a quick fix for Troweprice or TiaaCref. 
> TIAA-CREF's website seems to be using HTTP/2.0. Even "curl" doesn't work 
> on older (ex: Ubuntu 22.04) Linux OS's. Not sure if just updating all 
> the appropriate Perl modules would help, as they may be limited to the 
> functionality of C libraries on the system. I have not spent that much 
> time on it. I didn't look at the Bloomberg module. It was working not 
> too long ago. <shoulder shrug>
> 
> This may be the end of the line for the Troweprice and TiaaCref modules. 
> I'll give it some time to see if someone else in the community tackles 
> either of them.
> 
> Bruce S.
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