Re: Quotes and Exchange Rates synchronizer extension

You can report a problem at http://www.google.com/support/finance/bin/request.py?contact_type=chart. (I already sent in my feedback)


-SteveL




On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Mennē Software Solutions wrote:

I confirm that Google apparently does not allow downloading mutual fund
price history. If you go to the Google site for a stock or ETF, let's say
the stock Intel (INTC), then go to the Historical Prices page for it. On the
right hand side is a chart and below the chart is the word Export and a
link, "download to spreadsheet". The URL of that link is what we used to get
the price data.

Now go to any mutual fund quote's Historical Prices page, say SPECX. The
chart is still there on the right, but not the link to download to
spreadsheet. So when Moneydance generates a URL to download it, we get a 404
Not Found error. Google is not providing the data.

Hopefully, Google will change this and start to allow mutual fund prices to
be downloaded as well. Otherwise pretty much all we have available is Yahoo!
for mutual funds. :(  If anyone knows where to complain for Google, please
post it. If enough people complain maybe they will change.

--Kevin


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Steve Lessard
<[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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