Eric Success!! Thank you very much for your detailed help with this problem.
Quite by chance, I looked at "Preferences" and in "Online Quotes" discovered the need for an Alpha Vantage API key, which I hadn't seen any mention of in the tutorial. Once I had obtained and applied that key, the downloads worked perfectly for all stocks without a hitch. Prior to your suggestion, I had been put off the use of AlphaVantage by its US suffix and had tried all of the GB suffixed sources before concluding that it must be the Symbol or Namespace Type that was causing the problem. Reassurance from you and Fred helped to clarify that aspect so I was then able to focus on AlphaVantage again, initially without success until I discovered the need for a key! Thanks again; I'm very grateful for all the help given. Best wishes Alan Eric Coates wrote > Alan > > Before commenting about the failure of Get Online Quotes to get anything > useful a small amplification of Fred Bone's comment that *Type* can be > anything you want (Fred has given his choice, I use a different set - > LSE for London quoted shares, EUREX for shares quoted on continental > European bourses, Fund for unit trusts - use whatever works for you ) so > can the *F**ull Name* - for example you could use SSE or Scottish and > Southern Electricity or even its full formal name SSE Plc Ord 50p. > > As for why you're not getting even one quote ... > > You've obviously got an internet connection and you're?? ticking the *Get > Online Quotes* box and (I assume) you've updated the AphaVantage.pm file > so I'm close to the edge of my knowledge. > > On the basis of those assumptions, I'd try something a little "left > field". Safeguard your data and try changing the source of quotes to > *Single - Yahoo as JSON*. As I said earlier Yahoo is seen as reliable (I > use it for my European shares) but I'd expect you to get a price that > will be 100 times too big (just try one share then if you're > brave/foolhardy enough to risk your live data it's easy to delete the > wrong value). The result of this experiment may (just may) give us > something to get our teeth into. And when I say "us"/"our" I mean the > community at large - as I said I'm staring into the dark. > > Best wishes > > Eric > > PS: But there's a small niggle that I've just noticed: I've just > upgraded my operating system and got an upgraded gnuCash as a bonus (I'm > now running gnuCash 3.4 with Finance::Quote 1.47 on Ubuntu 19.04 all of > which, I believe, are the most up-to-date versions). In the Edit > Security window what used to appear as *AlphaVantage* in the *Unknown* > category now appears as *Alphavantage, US* under *Single*. Even though > the name has changed Alphavantage, US gives me legitimate values for UK > shares. Did the US put you off? It seems unlikely. > > > ====================================== -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
