Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread Chris Good
Good Message: 9 Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 07:58:44 -0500 From: David Carlson To: Sudesh Chandar Cc: "gnucash-user@gnucash.org" , Geoff Subject: Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sudes

Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread David Carlson
Sudesh, I think you have completed the installation correctly. Since you also obtained a key from Alpha Vantage you should be able to use their service to download prices if they provide the ones that you want. For some stock quotes you may get better results using one of the other services that

Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread Geoff
Hi Sudesh It looks like you are on the right tram now. > much closer to 3 hours > Is this normal? Not in my experience, but it depends on your hardware and internet connection. > My next step is how to setup a stock symbol in the price database/Get > quotes button? Correct. Unfortunately I

Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread Sudesh Chandar via gnucash-user
Hello Geoff, Many thanks for the fast reply. Actually the Perl scripts ran longer than 30 minutes much closer to 3 hours and after all that It threw up an error about "Alpha Vantage  API Key". I had to manually visit the alphavantage website and request a key and update Gnucash app under edi

Re: [GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread Geoff
Hi Sudesh Some of the required Perl modules take a considerable time to install and the process may appear to "freeze" when in fact it is only "resting". Can you try again - you need to run the "gnc-fq-update" script located in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\" directory - and send a

[GNC] Trouble Installing Online Price Retrieval Tool

2021-05-05 Thread Sudesh Chandar via gnucash-user
Hello  Group, I am a new user of GNU cash and have recently downloaded and installed Gnucash ver 4.5 on a windows 10 64 bit machine. I am trying to run the script for Installing online price retrieval and the command line freezes after a while. It installed the Strawberry perl just fine and the i