Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-06-02 Thread John Ralls
From https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/ : "The batch stock quotes API enables the querying of multiple stock quotes with a single API request, updated realtime. It may serve as a lightweight alternative to our core stock time series APIs

Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-06-02 Thread Alun Champion
Hmm, that has not been my observation but I'm sure there are some nuances, for me it shows the last price during the trading day (as in it doesn't show after market prices) but the call can happen any time, e.g. here is the demo linl:

Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-06-02 Thread John Ralls
It’s only live when that particular issue is trading; e.g. for a US stock between 0930 and 1600 Eastern Time. That makes it unsuitable for F::Q. Regards, John Ralls > On Jun 2, 2018, at 6:12 AM, Alun Champion wrote: > > Alphavantage does provide a batch stock api, which you only sends the >

Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-06-02 Thread Alun Champion
Alphavantage does provide a batch stock api, which you only sends the latest quote, you can send just one stock to that api call e.g. ( https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=BATCH_STOCK_QUOTES=MSFT=), which only returns the latest value. -A. On 31 May 2018 at 20:12, prl wrote: > On

Re: [GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-05-31 Thread prl
On 31/05/2018 12:59, Dave Tapuska wrote: >From the gnucash point of view it only uses the latest quote so even returning the compact list (which is the last 100 days) is far overkill. Perhaps a lighter weight request returning the last closing value would be sufficient. That would be ideal, but

[GNC] AlphaVantage Stock Quotes

2018-05-31 Thread Dave Tapuska
So I've constantly run into issues getting quotes for stocks I have listed. Sometimes it loads some of them, and it seems completely random. I'm using 3.0-118-gd2ef5fd0f+ (2018-04-28) with Finance Quote 1.47. I had a closer look at why the individual requests were taking so long. (Upwards of 1s