On 07/12/2026, at 10:35:52 +1000, Peter Lamb wrote:
In my original post I said that I'd run sudo gnc-fq-update - it was what
changed the Get Quotes behaviour of Gnucash 5.16 from hanging to giving
the error messages that I've described.
If you want to test F::Q completely independent of GnuCash, you can use
the example stockdump.pl script that is included in the tarball from
CPAN. Or directly from the F::Q Github repository.
cd /tmp
wget
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/refs/heads/master/Examples/stockdump.pl
--2026-07-12 11:16:27--
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/refs/heads/master/Examples/stockdump.pl
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)...
2606:50c0:8002::154, 2606:50c0:8000::154, 2606:50c0:8003::154, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com
(raw.githubusercontent.com)|2606:50c0:8002::154|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 500 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘stockdump.pl’
stockdump.pl 100%[===================>] 500 --.-KB/s in
0s
2026-07-12 11:16:28 (19.2 MB/s) - ‘stockdump.pl’ saved [500/500]
perl stockdump.pl asx QAN
$VAR1 = {
'QANtype' => 1,
'QANbid' => '10.33',
'QANvolume' => 3729869,
'QANask' => '10.43',
'QANerrormsg' => '',
'QANsuccess' => 1,
'QANnet' => '0.0199999999999996',
'QANcurrency' => 'AUD',
'QANsymbol' => 'QAN',
'QANprice' => '10.41',
'QANmethod' => 'asx',
'QANlast' => '10.41',
'QANp_change' => '0.192492781520689',
'QANname' => 'QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED'
};
I hope this helps.
Bruce S.
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