[GNC] CMBChina Symbols for Finance::Quote

[John Ralls]

Bruce,

On a related topic, yahooweb seems to be broken: stockdump.pl yahooweb AAPL returns 
$VAR1 = {
          'AAPLerrormsg' => '404 Not Found',
          'AAPLsuccess' => 0
        };
Though https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/history/?p=AAPL in the browser works as expected producing an HTML table with the price history.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 19, 2025, at 2:38 PM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks, but that was something I came across in my hours of wasted time. But, Funds do expire, change, etc. So I'm still wanting to have a link where I can easily grab another symbol before I even attempt to debug the module. It was only a few months ago when the original author submitted the PR to add the module.
> 
> Yeah... looks like this module was short lived.
> 
> Bruce S
> 
> On 10/19/25 14:16, John Ralls wrote:
>> Bruce,
>> I don’t use it, but I visited the URL from the module, https://cfweb.paas.cmbchina.com/personal/prodvalue.aspx and told Safari to translate it. There’s a search box into which I entered XY040208 and clicked the search button. That produced a table with prices. The page source’s body contains a script and no other content so IIUC it’s not scrapable.
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>> On Oct 19, 2025, at 1:14 PM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Who is using the "cmbchina" source in Finance::Quote?
>>> 
>>> I am asking because the symbol used in the modules test script, "XY040208", is no longer returning valid quote data. I have spent a considerable amount of time search for a list of valid funds in order to change the symbol used for testing with no success. I have attempted to contact the module's original author for the last 2 or 3 weeks and have not received a response.
>>> 
>>> So if anybody is using "cmbchina" with success, please respond with a symbol that is returning valid data. If possible a link to a list of valid funds and their symbols would also be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> 
>>> Bruce S
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