Stooq.pl reliablility

[Szőts Ákos]

Hi Thomas,

I asked them what's the reason for this 100× multiplication and they
replied that they use multipliers with premeditation. Full name of
HUFEUR ticker is "Hungarian Forint / Euro 10^2:1" and it contains the
multiplier (10^2:1 = 100:1). I asked whether an API exists to retrieve
the ticker name but I got no response for that, unfortunately.

Anyway, as it seems, from 07. 01. simply there is no data returned at
all for any query (not just for HUF and EUR).

All the best,

Ákos

2018-06-08 18:56 GMT+02:00 Szőts Ákos <szotsaki at gmail.com>:
> Dear Thomas,
>
> 2018-06-04 12:10 GMT+02:00 Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de>:
>>
>> Ákos et al,
>>
>> On Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2018 10:01:39 CEST Szőts Ákos wrote:
>>
>> > Dear developers,
>> >
>> > I noticed that in my account the HUF <> EUR change works erratically.
>> >
>> > I downloaded two .csv files from stooq.pl which represents HUF-EUR and
>> > EUR-HUF exchange rates respectively (as KMyMoney downloads it):
>> > - http://stooq.pl/q/d/l/?s=HUFEUR&d1=20180501&d2=20180531&i=d
>> > - http://stooq.pl/q/d/l/?s=EURHUF&d1=20180501&d2=20180531&i=d
>> >
>> > See 2nd of May:
>> > - EUR - HUF: 314.49 Ft (correct according to the official source [1])
>> > - HUF - EUR: 0.31796 €
>> >
>> > EURHUF == 1/HUFEUR? No. HUF-EUR should be 0,003179751343444943 but it
>> > is 100 times bigger.
>>
>> That is certainly not expected from a users POV. I took a look at the raw
>> data provided by stooq.pl for the day in question and here are the results:
>>
>> thb at thb-nb:~/tmp$ curl
>> 'https://stooq.pl/q/d/l/?s=EURHUF&d1=20180502&d2=20180502&i=d'
>> Data,Otwarcie,Najwyzszy,Najnizszy,Zamkniecie
>> 2018-05-02,314.07,314.721,312.978,314.49
>>
>> thb at thb-nb:~/tmp$ curl
>> 'https://stooq.pl/q/d/l/?s=HUFEUR&d1=20180502&d2=20180502&i=d'
>> Data,Otwarcie,Najwyzszy,Najnizszy,Zamkniecie
>> 2018-05-02,0.31836,0.31951,0.31774,0.31796
>>
>> So how should KMyMoney know, that in one case the numbers are too big by a
>> factor of 100?
>>
>> > Besides, the response truncates results to 5 digits which reduces
>> > accuracy a bit.
>>
>> Yes, but it's the accuracy which is provided by the server, so nothing
>> KMyMoney can do about.
>>
>> > Please, take a look at this issue.
>> >
>> > Thank you and all the best,
>>
>> Any idea of how to improve the situation?
>
>
> As I saw after a 10+ minute of web search there isn't a big selection of
> free currency exchange rate providers. So instead of finding a new one, I
> wrote to Stooq to take a look on the issue. Hopefully, they'll fix it soon.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Thomas Baumgart
>>
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