Re: Quotes and Exchange Rates synchronizer extension

Prefixing the ticker symbol with MUTF: made no difference. Is this extension using a web API for requesting the historical data from Google or is the extension just parsing the HTML returned from http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=MUTF:SPECX or http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NASDAQ:AAPL?  Perhaps the URL for requesting historical data has changed since the extension was released?

For the record the extension is configured to use the "default" exchange for all stocks and mutual funds I have in Moneydance. The exact error message displayed by this extension is as follows:

Ticker Symbol: SPECX
History: Received response code 404 and message 'Not Found'

-SteveL




On Oct 19, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Mennē Software Solutions wrote:

Kevin N. - that's an older version, the newest one should be available via
Extensions -> Add... -> From the internet..., and is entitled Quotes and
Exchange Rates. The newest build is indeed build 63. I'll probably take down
that page soon, or leave it as just documentation and not allow downloading
the extension from it.

Steve - whether or not Google sends the data for mutual funds to Moneydance
is the main issue. If Google sends the data, Moneydance should be able to
import it no problem. So whether or not the issue with the particular mutual
funds you're attempting to download is fixable by the Quotes and Exchange
Rates extension comes down to what exactly the error is. If the error is
you're getting data from Google but the extension can't parse it, that's
fixable. If no data is being sent from Google, there's not much that can be
done.

There's a test mode available in the dialog by clicking the "Advanced >>"
label. When in test mode, you can try different settings and symbols to see
if you can configure the extension in such a way as to get a successful
test. As one example, you may (or may not) get improvement by adding a
"MUTF:" prefix to your mutual fund symbol, as Google sometimes uses that.

Good luck!

--Kevin

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Kevin Nugent <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi Steve,
> Have you checked into this?
> http://www.mennesoft.com/yahooqt/
> HTH -Kevin N.
> 
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:58:27 -0700
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [moneydance] Quotes and Exchange Rates synchronizer extension
>> 
>> I noticed that currency exchange rates are updated approximately every 14
> days (it's not a consistent number of days.) I wanted to get more frequent
> exchange rate updates so I started playing around with the Quotes and
> Exchange Rates synchronizer extension (Build 63.) Unfortunately I didn't
> find any way to get more frequent updates to exchange rates. :-( BUT, while
> in there I noticed that the source for Historical Security Prices was set to
> Yahoo Finance (USA.) I wanted to use Google Finance as the source for
> historical prices so I switched it. When I tested this setting I found that
> moneydance can only get historical prices for stocks and ETFs. With Google
> Finance set as the source for historical price data Moneydance cannot get
> historical prices for mutual funds.
>> 
>> Is there a newer build of this extension that can get more frequent
> currency exchange rates as well as historical prices for mutual funds from
> Google Finance?
>> 
>> -SteveL
>> 
>> 
>> 
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