KMYMoney Help

[Jesus Varela]

Do we know if any of these sources offer apis to the data?

Screen scraping will become increasingly more difficult.

I imagine access to the APIs, if they exist, would cost something. Like
with one of my American banks, they allow for free ofx file download but if
I want my financial software to connect directly, they charge like $20 a
month.

See here it us:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/rapidapi.com/blog/how-to-use-the-yahoo-finance-api/amp/

They have an API. 500 free hits. As an application that would not be enough
for all the users. Options:
1. Can KDE capture the data daily? And store it in a cache? All kde users
can have that as a source option if only updating once a day.
2. Or Can it be programmed where we let every user request their own API
access key and they use it in their own instance? We would need a form to
capture the input from the user.

I have not applied for any API key. No idea what is required.

Thanks,

JV


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 10:54 Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> If you want any real help, you need to cooperate and give us some
> information we can follow up on.  Which sources have you tried (at least
> one example) and what stock symbol?  Without that, we don't know if your
> particular problem is the same as anyone else's.  If you read through all
> the treads mentioned, you would have a better understanding of why this is
> so hard.  You are correct that it really should not be so hard, but because
> every source provides their data in different formats, and they change
> those formats at will and with no announcement, it IS difficult to keep up
> with all those changes.  In addition, the design of the KMM price update
> process makes it hard to automatically push such changes, even if we know
> about them, without  possibly needing some manual intervention from the
> user.
>
> The basic reason it has gone from almost always working to the current
> state is that most/all of the sources have accelerated the rate at which
> they make changes to their web sites, possibly because of the increase in
> use.  If you look at the web site, you see their ads.  If KMM downloads the
> data, nobody sees the ads.  They want you to see the ads, so they change
> the format.
>
> Again, if you want to make it work, you need to give us a concrete example
> of an attempt that failed for you.
>
> In my own case, I have had recent luck using the Finance::Quote (there is
> a checkbox on the stock's final configuration page).  If you check that
> box, then the "sources" dropdown is filled with the F::Q sources.  I have
> had luck selecting yahoo_json from that list.
>
> Jack
> On 1/13/20 10:48 AM, George Simonis wrote:
>
> I've tried 3 or 4 sources that are listed on the drop down. No luck. If
> tey don't work, why are they still listed as sources? Am I the only one
> having these problems?It used to be easy to update the stocks, now it is
> impossible.
>
> On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 01:47:01 PM EST, Jack
> <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> George,
>
> What source are you using for the updates?  As Thomas said, some sites,
> such as Yahoo, have simply stopped providing that service, so it simply
> won't work, and there is nothing KMyMoney can do about it.  Some have
> changed the format of what they provide, so we might be able to adjust
> the settings for that source, but we would need to know which source.
> Did you look through the forum as Thomas suggested?  In terms of errors
> - is there really nothing more than "failed to update"?  Is that on
> console or in a pop-up?
>
> Jack
>
> On 2020.01.08 12:36, George Simonis wrote:
> >  The stocks, mutual funds, do not update at all. Instead I get failed
> > to update in red, and then nothing. The stocks used to update easily.
> > There was an "update all" button, and presto, they were updated. NOT
> > SO in the last 2 years.Now it(investments ) have to be manually
> > updated which is a pain in the butt! What happened to the easy
> > updates?
> >
> >    On Monday, January 6, 2020, 3:01:20 PM EST, Thomas Baumgart
> > <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> >
> >  George,
> >
> > some sources have changed their data format others have seized their
> > operation. There are a couple of discussion threads on the KMyMoney
> > forum at https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=69
> >
> > In order to give some more advice or analyze your situation we would
> > need some details about the problem (e.g. error messages that are
> > shown on the GUI or a console).
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> > On Montag, 6. Januar 2020 16:55:22 CET George Simonis wrote:
> >
> > >  Thomas, I have used Kmymoney for years, and up til about a year or
> > so ago, was always able to update my stocks through the program. That
> > has stopped and for some reason, I cannot update the stocks at all.
> > Do the latest Kmymoneys fix the problem? I enjoyed having the stocks
> > update automatically, and now the stocks are a big mess. HELP!
> > >
> > >    On Friday, January 3, 2020, 05:30:23 PM EST, Thomas Baumgart
> > <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Larry,
> > >
> > > On Freitag, 3. Januar 2020 23:10:16 CET Larry Cutrone wrote:
> > >
> > > > I recently downloaded KMYMoney to migrate away from Quicken.  I
> > like the
> > > > look & feel, and can tolerate having to start from scratch to add
> > categories
> > > > with which I am familiar.
> > >
> > > Did you know, that you can try to import a QIF file to keep your
> > history? Might be worth a try, your mileage may vary though.
> > >
> > > > I added several accounts and on my 1st attempt
> > > > ran into date issues since my bank used 4 digit and the program
> > only allows
> > > > for 2 digit year.  Is there a way to change this?
> > >
> > > The date format is usually controlled by the KDE system settings.
> > KMyMoney just uses that. Or am I misunderstanding the question?
> > >
> > > > 2nd question is how do I
> > > > find options to set up my accounts to updated from my bank via
> > online
> > > > banking?
> > >
> > > That depends on the possibilities your bank supports. Usually you
> > use "Account/Map account" to setup direct online processing of
> > statement/transaction data. Another possibility is to import CSV
> > files.
> > >
> > > > Any help will be much appreciated even if it is to read some
> > > > documentation (as long as I know where it is).
> > >
> > > Documentation can be found here:
> > https://kmymoney.org/documentation.php
> > >
> > > Hope that helps and gets you started.
>
>
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