[GNC] Help getting online prices

[Wm Tarr]

Did you see Bruce's post in this thread on the 6th of August ?

Wm


On 2026-08-07 14:53, Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton wrote:
> I'm having a similar problem; ukfunds not working, ftfunds not 
> working. Appending a :GBP or :GBX suffix to the ISIN hasn't helped. 
> Updating to Gnucash 5.16 and FQ 1.70 hasn't helped.
>
> I don't understand the reference in the previous post to FTfunds.pm. I 
> can't find that file in my system and wouldn't know how to update it.
>
> Can anyone explain or has anyone found another solution?
>
> Screenshot below, with illustrations for one ISIN but I get the same 
> with all ISINs I have tried.
>
> Ruaraidh
>
> image.png
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 at 11:37, Wm Tarr <wm at ilipsis.net> wrote:
>
>     I've updated my FTfunds.pm by hand.
>
>     Does anyone know what the right way of updating F::Q is when just one
>     module has changed?  Or how to force re-installation of F::Q so
>     the new
>     module gets installed?
>
>     Wm
>
>     On 2026-07-22 02:41, Wm Tarr wrote:
>     > That wasn't actually the problem.  Someone else has fixed it though
>     > and there is an updated FTfunds.pm on github.
>     >
>     > Wm
>     >
>     > On 2026-07-20 10:23, Wm Tarr wrote:
>     >> It looks like ftfunds now requires a ":GBP" or ":GBX" suffix after
>     >> the ISIN
>     >>
>     >> e.g.
>     >>
>     >> BlackRock Consensus 85 Fund A Acc, GB00B8D7RH96:GBP summary -
>     FT.com
>     >>
>     <https://markets.ft.com/data/funds/tearsheet/summary?s=GB00B8D7RH96:GBP>
>     >>
>     >> for Rich's fund.
>     >>
>     >> Wm
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 2026-07-19 13:07, Wm Tarr wrote:
>     >>> I'm in the same boat.  ukfunds (which tries more than one source)
>     >>> stopped working on the morning of Friday 2026-07-17 for me having
>     >>> worked the previous morning, the point is I don't know which
>     >>> specific quote source was working before but I'll guess it was
>     >>> ftfunds based on your message below.  None of
>     >>>
>     >>> morningstaruk ftfunds mstaruk ukfunds
>     >>>
>     >>> are producing prices when run from a script. My guess is ftfunds
>     >>> can't be scraped any more.
>     >>>
>     >>> yahoo_json yahoojson yahooweb
>     >>>
>     >>> need yahoo's code.  Unfortunately yahoo gives incorrect prices
>     for
>     >>> my UK Funds and I can't find your fund class on Y! finance at all.
>     >>>
>     >>> Wm
>     >>>
>     >>> On 2026-07-19 10:53, Rich Stanton wrote:
>     >>>> Hi,
>     >>>>
>     >>>> I've got online prices before with no problems, but recently
>     it's
>     >>>> begun failing and I can't work out how to fix it. I have
>     BlackRock
>     >>>> Consensus 85 Fund D Acc set up with symbol GB00B8D7RH96, using
>     >>>> Financial Times GB as the quote source. However for the past few
>     >>>> days it's given me the error '403 forbidden' when updating
>     prices.
>     >>>> I tried switching to Yahoo (which required adding .L to the
>     end of
>     >>>> the code) but that returns a price of 0. Using motleyfool gave
>     >>>> 'quote returned no data and no set error' while morningstaruk
>     >>>> returned 'failed to retrieve fund data'.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> I've updated gnucash to 5.16 and rerun the installation of
>     >>>> finance::quote which says that everything is up-to-date.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Any ideas where I go next?
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Thanks!
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