Hello Dan, I just looked at my GNC Price Database and the following quotes are returned successfully for me with Yahoo_JSON. Why don't you try a few of these and see if they work for you. They are current as of September 4, 2018 for me.
Stock: ACN Fund: FBIOX, FBMPX, FCYIX Regards, Michael On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Dan Nelms <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Michael for your comments about using Yahoo_json for some of your > security quotes. My needs are also very mild, but they number more than 4. > > I am running GnuCash version 3.2, Finance::Quote 1.47 (Strawberry) on a > Windows 10 machine. > > I tried using Yahoo_json with the GnuCash security editor and each time I > get the "could not get quotes for the following...." message. I tried 2 > mutual funds, 2 NYSE stocks and 1 NASDAQ stock. They all failed. I tried > closing and restarting Gnucash just to be the changes in the security > editor got loaded, still all failures. Yahoo_json is either not working for > me or I am doing something wrong. Damn, I was hoping for an easy solution. > > Alphavantage works fine but only for the first 4 securities. > > Dan > > On 9/3/2018 6:59 AM, Fross, Michael wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > My needs are fairly mild, but yes I currently use Yahoo_JSON for all of my > quotes. Most of my investments are in US mutual funds although I do have > several individual stocks. > > I simply use "*Single: Yahoo as JSON"* in the security editor. I had > switched to AlphaVantage when everyone else did and it worked most of the > time, although it was very slow. I think it's worse now so I'm happy > Yahoo_JSON continues to work...at least for the time being. I pull down 37 > quotes, so not that many but if Alphavantage allows 5 quotes / min, it > would take me 7+ minutes do download those. > > Now I don't believe it will handle currencies and I'm not sure about > non-US exchanges, but this does work for me. You can always do the ones it > supports via Yahoo_JSON and just the others via AlphaVantage depending on > your situation. > > Michael > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> Am 03.09.2018 um 00:10 schrieb Dan Nelms: >> > Micheal, I noticed in one of your replies to a user having Finance:Quote >> > problems that are still getting quotes from Yahoo_json for most of your >> > quotes. Are you doing that through the GnuCash Security setup? If so >> > what button do you use, ie Single, Multiple or Unknown? I would like to >> > try it. Thanks. Dan >> >> RTFM: >> https://code.gnucash.org/docs/C/gnucash-help/fq-sources.html >> #idm139753655191424 >> ;-) >> >> Frank >> >> > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
