Thank you, Geoff,
I tried and it says as in attached screenshot.
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On Friday, June 17th, 2022 at 9:51 AM, Geoff wrote:
> Hi Julie
>
> [Etiquette - always include the gnucash-user@gnucash.org list in all
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>
> OK, we need to try and find out why Finance::Quote itself is not working.
>
> Please try this command (all one line):
>
> perl -MFinance::Quote -e 'my $q = Finance::Quote->new(); print
>
> $q->fetch(q/yahoo_json/,q/IBM/);'
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff
> =
>
> On 17/06/2022 12:05 pm, Trang Julie wrote:
>
> > Thank you for your respond, Geoff!
> >
> > You're right when you suggested verifying if it's working properly.
> > I see the details such as date, currency, etc are missing. Attached is the
> > screenshot.
> > Could you let me know what I should do?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Julie
> >
> >
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> > On Friday, June 17th, 2022 at 8:21 AM, Geoff cleanoutmys...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Julie
> > >
> > > You say that you have "successfully installed" Finance::Quote. We need
> > > to verify that is is actually working, independently of GnuCash. The
> > > easiest way to do this is to use the gnc-fq-dump utility as I explained
> > > in my email yesterday.
> > >
> > > You need to:
> > > (A) Locate the folder containing the gnc-fq-dump utility
> > > (B) Open a Terminal session and navigate to this folder
> > > (C) Run these two commands:
> > > perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json IBM
> > > perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json BTC-USD
> > >
> > > If Finance:Quote is working correctly, you should see something like this:
> > >
> > > gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json IBM
> > > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> > > symbol: IBM <=== required
> > > date: 06/17/2022 <=== recommended
> > > currency: USD <=== required
> > > last: 135.67 <=\
> > > nav: <=== one of these
> > > price: <=/
> > > timezone: <=== optional
> > >
> > > gnc-fq-dump yahoo_json BTC-USD
> > > Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> > > symbol: BTC-USD <=== required
> > > date: 06/17/2022 <=== recommended
> > > currency: USD <=== required
> > > last: 20453.908 <=\
> > > nav: <=== one of these
> > > price: <=/
> > > timezone: <=== optional
> > >
> > > Let us know the results.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > > =
> > >
> > > On 16/06/2022 11:08 pm, Trang Julie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank you very much for your quick response, Geoff.
> > > >
> > > > Good news is I successfully installed the Finance::Quote version 1.51
> > > > but still can't get online quotes.
> > > > I tried both Yahoo as JSON source and Alpha Vantage, and got API key,
> > > > but the notification still says the same "Unable to retrieve quotes",
> > > > as the screenshot in attached.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure if it's just something with the connection or data source
> > > > or I need to do something else from my end.
> > > >
> > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
> > > > --- Original Message ---
> > > > On Thursday, June 16th, 2022 at 7:47 PM, Geoff cleanoutmys...@gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Julie
> > > > >
> > > > > > Does it mean something went wrong with Finance Quote module install,
> > > > >
> > > > > since it doesn't show its version?
> > > > >
> > > > > Possibly. You can use the GnuCash gnc-fq-dump utility (it is a Perl
> > > > > script) to try and narrow down the problem. You didn't mention your
> > > > > operating system, but your screenshot looks like MacOS? Anyway, on
> > > > > Windows you will typically find this utility in the "C:\Program Files
> > > > > (x86)\gnucash\bin" directory, and you can run it from a command
> > > > > prompt.
> > > > > See attached screenshot for an example of successfully fetching prices
> > > > > for IBM and Bitcoin using Yahoo.
> > > > >
> > > > > See if you can try this and let us know the res
