For what it's worth, I have used the free version of AlphaVantage, but
for the number of stocks I have, AlphaVantage is extremely slow.
I found MarketWatch to be much quicker, but there seems to be some
throttling if I used it several times during the day and seemed to stop
updating quotes with no visible errors. i.e. just gave me a stale price.
The main problem I have had with GoogleWeb is that mutual funds don't
update until much later than they do on Yahoo Finance; I assume
GoogleWeb uses the same data underlying the Google Finance web page
quotes, and they also update much later.
My go-to workaround is an Excel spreadsheet with stock prices from the
Excel "Stocks" data type (search on the web for something like "excel
stock from call sign"). I then export this to a CSV file and use
"File>Import>Import Prices from a CSV file..." in Gnucash with a saved
template to select the columns. This works well, but requires several
manual steps. I'm sure you can do something similar from Google Sheets,
Apple Pages, or even just copy-and-paste tables from stock portfolios on
Yahoo Finance or many similar web sites.
I also tried "gnucash-cli --quotes dump ..." with bloomberg but couldn't
get any results. The "fool" quote source works for plain stocks, but
doesn't seem to have mutual funds or preferred stocks. Neither
troweprice nor trowprice_direct worked, but did produce error messages
that might lead somewhere. The tiaacref source seemed to hang.
I did try a few individual quotes with a free YH Finance API key, but
their described limit of 100 requests a day is not enough for me. The
next tier up is essentially $10 a month with a hard limit of 20,000
quotes per month which work as long as I didn't go nuts updating during
the day. I didn't try anything else which needs an API key.
On 6/19/25 4:15 PM, Brad Morrison wrote:
Hi GnuCash Users & Developers,
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes - I do not use
Finance::Quote, but it seems like there have been a lot of issues
brought up lately with the quote fetching.
It also seems like most of the issues have been with users that use
Yahoo.
Have those folks that have experienced issues with Yahoo Finance's
online quotes experienced similar issues with the other sources for
online quotes?
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Finance::Quote_Sources
I use Google Finance when looking up some financial data and it appears
that Google Finance is also listed in that table of online sources -
does anyone experience the same issues with quote retrieval with Google
Finance?
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/184281707/what-is-the-format-for-preferred-stock-securities?hl=en
- I noted that Tom Texiera included this link in his 6/12/25 email to
the GnuCash Users email list.
In addition, have the basics been addressed: are those experiencing
issues with F::Q using the current version of Finance::Quote (1.65 -
https://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/) AND the current version of
GnuCash (5.11 - https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml), as well as a
supported version of their preferred operating system?
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