Have you tried single-Morningstar GB as your source? Cheerio
Graham On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, 8:15 pm Eric Coates, <eric.coa...@sky.com> wrote: > Hi > > Context: I’m running GnuCash 2.16.7 on Ubuntu 1604 with Finance-Quote 1.47. > > Like many others I have been using AlphaVantage as the source for my > online share price retrievals and been experiencing difficulties. > Following up on hints in the mailing list I have tried using > Single/Yahoo as JSON as an alternative source. > > Having set the source as Single/Yahoo as JSON for all my shares and > clicking Get Quotes I got very rich! Unfortunately, a quick > investigation revealed that, although my European shares had received > (what looked like) good quotes, the prices received for my UK shares > come back 100 times too big. > > As I have relatively few shares and usually only update the prices at > the end of the month it is not totally ridiculous to input UK share > prices by hand. But it would be so much nicer to be able to do it > automatically. > > Assuming that others are having the same problem with UK shares and > Yahoo as JSON (are they?), is there a known (and hopefully simple) way > to correct the Yahoo prices? > > I wonder if there is a possible alternative: It has been hinted here > that GnuCash 3 has a much improved CSV importer and (if I understand > properly) it is possible to input share prices using it. It would be > possible to get the list of shares and their prices from my broker > account. Is the GnuCash 3 importer documented (I can't find anything) so > as to make the import easy? (But that means upgrading and, again, my > ignorance means I need simple instructions.) > > As always, my thanks to the developers and the documentation team and > other users of this list for their time and efforts > > Best wishes > > Eric > > PS: Please forgive this aside: > > On the Securities Editor page, for me, it is not possible to un-tick the > box in the Get Quote column. Should it be? > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.