Re: [GNC] Best Quote Source for GDRs Traded in Frankfurt

On 8/26/26 17:59:48 +0200, rsbrux wrote:

> I am looking for quotes on two different GDRs:

> 1. Since I am looking for quotes from Frankfurt, I assume that I should
> be using one of the German sources, but there are too many for me to
> want to do "trial and error".

I don't hold any non-US stocks or funds. But using the stockdump.pl or 
gnucash-cli is a quick way to check if a particular method returns data 
for a given symbol.
> 2. Furthermore, I don't know what the various sources expect as
> "Symbol/abbreviation". Is there some way to see this short of examining
> each module's code? If given a choice, my preference would be ISIN.
If you have "perldoc" installed, a good number of the modules note which 
symbols a module accepts. For example

     perldoc Finance::Quote::Consorsbank

In that output you would find that the "consorsbank" method accepts 
either ISIN or WKN.

Sorry, with many contributors to F::Q over the years, there was no 
control over what symbols each method would accept. In hindsight, at the 
very least it would have helpful to have that information included in 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Finance::Quote_Sources 
and/or 
https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/wiki/Documentation#financequote-sources.

Bruce S

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