[Kmymoney-devel] Update to UK Fund prices in KmyMoney

[David Houlden]

Hi Nick,

On Thursday 22 March 2012 14:00:39 BUNTING Nick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw a thread on the oldNabble forum from 2008, regarding the above issue
> ( http://old.nabble.com/Unable-to-update-stock-prices-td20524760.html)
> 
> Using examples from the original thread:
> The link http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/lookup?s=GB0031835118GBP gives "There
> are no All Markets results for GB0031835118GBP"
> The same link without the GBP at the end does work, giving the current
> price data.
> 
> Trying the .csv download style URL as shown in the original thread, with
> the GB0031835118 that worked above :
> uk.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GB0031835118&f=sl1t1d1
> produces "GB0031835118",0.00,"N/A","N/
> A"   in the file
> 
> I have tried with several fund codes, and found the same lack of real data
> each time.
> 
> I have also seen other solutions to this issue elsewhere, suggesting
> Financial Express for instance, all to no avail.
>
Financial Express worked for me until about a week ago. The URL no longer 
seems to be valid. In my spare moments I am trying to find a good source to 
search prices by SEDOL code. Not much help to you I'm afraid but might save 
you wasting any more time on Financial Express.
 
> Does anyone have any up-to-date advice or solution to this ?
> 
> Using KMyMoney 4.5.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 in case that helps
> 
> thanks
> Nick