[kmymoney] [Bug 417142] cannot find yahoo finance under online quotes

[Jack]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417142

--- Comment #1 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
The documentation is likely out of date here, although I'm not sure what is the
current default, or if there is any point in actualy having a default.  (And I
am responsible for the docs, so I only blame myself.)

For most people, Yahoo finance stopped working for price updates a long time
ago, as they stopped providing that service in a way that can be used by
programs.  The same is true for several other sources, so you will just have to
try multiple sources until you find one which works for you.

There have been multiple discussions of this issue on the mailing list and in
the forum, and it basically remains an unsolved issue, because when a service
changes the layout of the web site, it will stop working in KMM until someone
changes the regular expression used to find the necessary data on the page, and
then users copy the updated version into their own settings.  

In addition, there is work going on to add a different method to download stock
and currency prices, but there is no estimate when that will be working and
available.  You might also try Finance::Quote (see the checkbox at the top of
the page where you specify the source to use) but I am not certain whether it
will work on Windows, and it certainly requires you have Perl and it's
Finance::Quote module installed.

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