On 2025.02.17 10:26, Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney-devel wrote:
On Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 00:05:22 CET Jack Ostroff via
KMyMoney-devel wrote:
> For the past few weeks/months I've pretty much given up on trying to
> retrieve online stock prices. This week, I finally updated my
sources,
> and most of my stocks retrieved the latest price just fine.
However,
> many mutual funds did not, failing with "Unable to find 'timestamp'
> from date pattern 'chart:result:timestamp' in quote data." In
trying
> to trace down the actual problem, I saw there were two timestamps in
> the created URL, and they decoded to the start of today, and the
> current time. If there is no price for that fund for today, I can
see
> this failure. I did finally manage to try to retrieve prices for
> yesterday through today, and it worked, but only getting a price for
> yesterday.
>
> So - I wonder if the first retrieval fails, and today is on a
weekend
> or holiday, would it be reasonable to try to retrieve the price for
> yesterday or the previous day? Is there any other way to address
this?
>
> Separately, it seems there are lots of different places to get a
> listing of securities, but not all are sortable, and only from some
can
> you request an online price update, and from only one of those can
you
> actually specify a range of dates. Am I best off just filing a wish
> list for addressing some of these issues?
I think that I covered most of that during the last couple of days.
> For one example, in the Tools/Prices dialog, you can click on either
> the Commodity or Stock Name column head to sort on that column, and
> click again to sort decreasing. However, from the Equities Tab of
the
> Investments View, if you right click and select "Update Stock and
> CUrrency Prices..." clicking on the header has no effect at all,
and in
> the Securities Tab, that option is not available.
>
> Also, on the price update dialog, there is no search function, so
> finding a single stock is mildly annoying if you CAN sort the
columns,
> but extremely annoying if you can nether sort nor filter.
>
> Thanks for suggestions on where to best address this.
As mentioned: this should now be available. The filter opens with the
usual Ctrl+F sequence when in the dialog.
Thanks. That is much better. However, today it still failed to get
prices for almost a dozen of my mutual funds. It appears to me like a
price is only set for these funds a day late. That is if I tell it to
fetch prices for yesterday to today, it fetches a price for yesterday.
I know that's not a problem with the code, but I do wonder if anyone
else has noticed this. What I'll probably do is always set a two day
range to fetch prices, and never try it on or right after a weekend.
Jack
