Don't know what else to try other than perhaps some of the other F:Q quote sources. Of course after this discussion, I'm sure my Yahoo_JSON quotes will soon start to fail....... :-)
Michael On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Dan Nelms <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I tried your securities (ACN and FBIOX) with yahoo_json. Got unable to > retrieve... > > I tried a couple of my securities with alphavantage. It worked fine. > > I tried your sec with Yahoo together with mine with alphaV at same time. > It got mine and yours were unable... > > I tried your securities with alphaV and got the prices fine. > > Results are the price database is working and alphavantage is working, but > for me Yahoo json fails in all cases. > > Dan > > On 9/5/2018 6:09 AM, Fross, Michael wrote: > > 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.
