[GNC] Help getting online prices

Wm Tarr wm at ilipsis.net
Sat Aug 8 11:12:14 EDT 2026


Thank you, Bruce.

Wm

On 2026-08-06 23:22, Bruce Schuck wrote:
> On Wed Jul 22 06:35:48 EDT 2026. Wm Tarr 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?
> Changed (or added) modules are not usually available until a full F::Q 
> release is pushed to CPAN. What some users might do is pull the 
> changed module from Github using wget or curl to replace the failing 
> module on their computer (for FTfunds.pm that would be 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/refs/heads/master/lib/Finance/Quote/FTfunds.pm 
> ).
>
> Occasionally interim releases are uploaded to CPAN. These would need 
> to be installed using something like "cpan 
> BPSCHUCK/Finance-Quote-1.69_01.tar.gz". In your case you would have to 
> look for "Finance-Quote-1.70_0?.tar.gz" since the change to FTfunds.pm 
> was merged after the v1.70 release. You would be able to check if an 
> interim release exists by looking at the list of files in 
> https://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BP/BPSCHUCK/
>
> On a related note, it appears MorningstarUK has begun using JavaScript 
> based anti-webscraping. Unfortunately it will likely be dropped from 
> F::Q.


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