Chris Good -- when we fixed the Alpha Vantage timeout problem no changes were required for the Qoute.pm module. I am wondering what changes have been made. The link
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtalexander/finance-quote/6ee43ea08b504617 142139fda41ae45be865fa38/lib/Finance/Quote.pm <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtalexander/finance-quote/6ee43ea08b504617142139fda41ae45be865fa38/lib/Finance/Quote.pm> no longer works. Paul Bates <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have no problems using Yahoo_JSON as a quote source for my 16 stocks for > which I download prices only weekly. > > However, I have been working with another user and it seems Yahoo_JSON > fails > when there are many stocks and/or prices for them are requested often. > > > > I suggest people who run into Yahoo _JSON problems use Alpha Vantage as the > quote source. > > See > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Why_doesn.27t_online_quoting_work.3F > > > > Alpha Vantage purposefully fails quote requests if it detects a user > hogging > their web server resources by returning an Information message that says: > > Please consider optimizing your API call frequency > > and pausing for approx. 20 seconds. > > > > If you use Alpha Vantage, there have been mods made to Finance::Quote so > that usage complies with the Alpha Vantage recommendations that only 1 > price > request per second is made in order to ensure that the webserver resources > are shared amongst all users. > > > > If the information message is detected for a particular stock (or currency > conversion thanks Mike Alexander), then Finance::Quote also pauses for 20 > seconds, then retries up to 4 times. > > As this means you should not have to retry getting prices for all stocks or > currencies if you have a failure, and this will minimise usage of the Alpha > Vantage web server, I suggest people install the modified perl programs. > > > > The modified Finance::Quote perl programs are currently not yet > incorporated > into the latest version of Finance::Quote (1.47), and as the Finance::Quote > maintainers are, like everyone else, busy, it may be a long time (it has > been over a year in the past) before these mods are included in the next > release of Finance::Quote. > > > > To install these mods without waiting for them to be incorporated in > Finance::Quote: > > > > 1. Make sure the standard Quote.pm and AlphaVantage.pm files are writable. > > > > For Windows 10 these files are usually: > > C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote.pm > > C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote\AlphaVantage.pm > > Using File Manager, right click on the file, Properties, Untick 'Read > Only', > then OK > > > > For Ubuntu Linux, these files are usually: > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Finance/Quote.pm > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm > > From a terminal: > > cd /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Finance > > sudo chmod 666 Quote.pm Quote/AlphaVantage.pm > > > > 2. To install the modified Quote.pm: > > Open > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtalexander/finance-quote/ > 6ee43ea08b504617 > 142139fda41ae45be865fa38/lib/Finance/Quote.pm > > in a browser, click in the code, then use Control-A to highlight it all, > then paste it into a text editor > > (say Notepad for Windows, or gedit for Linux), then 'Save As' over the top > of the existing > Quote.pm. > > > > 3. To install the modified AlphaVantage.pm: > > Open > https://github.com/mtalexander/finance-quote/blob/ > 6ee43ea08b504617142139fda4 > 1ae45be865fa38/lib/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm > > > > in a browser, click in the code, then use Control-A to highlight it all, > then paste it into a text editor > > (say Notepad for Windows, or gedit for Linux), then 'Save As' over the top > of the existing > AlphaVantage.pm. > > > > > Sorry, I don't have a Mac so I cannot provide instructions. > > > > If you want to check on the progress of the Pull Request to incorporate > these changes in Finance::Quote, please see: > > https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/pull/85 > > > > Regards, Chris Good > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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