It is frustrating that you can find dozens of free sites for human viewing with 
up to date quotes, especially for funds that change once after each trading day 
close (I guess if they have interest bearing securities they could fluctuate 
all the time as rates fluctuate, but not that I ever heard of).  If we learn to 
mine these pages, the quote fetch overhead on the providers goes way up from 
them creating junk we throw away, e.g.: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/

-----Original Message-----
From: John Layman <john.lay...@laymanandlayman.com>
To: 'David G. Pickett' <dgpick...@aol.com>; gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Sent: Sat, May 27, 2023 8:09 am
Subject: RE: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

Mostly, no.  I'm getting few mutual fund returns.  But misses are only 
sporadically logged.  That makes me wonder if stale quotes are being delivered. 
 But it also makes me wonder if I've been tuned out and am unaware that a 
secret handshake is now needed.

I don't fetch prices automatically, but typically download around 6 AM.  I also 
run an Excel spreadsheet that fetches quotes from Refinitiv using the Stocks 
data type.  That has its own issues as some newer mutual fund tickers aren't 
recognized.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee....@gnucash.org> On 
Behalf Of David G. Pickett via gnucash-user
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2023 4:42 PM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] experience using Alpha Vantage

I have seen it fumble, too, not sure if it is FQ or AA.  Funds do their nav 
some time after 4 eastern, so I do my quotes on cron at midnight.  This also 
means the 6 minute run time is not a problem.  But silently lost quotes seems 
like a bad behavior.  Does the code log when the price fetch fails a AA?  It 
certainly did with Yahoo!
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