[Kmymoney] KMM - still other questions ...

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Friday 03 October 2014 15:26:05 pjp13 at free.fr wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> To improve my knowledge of KMM (windows version), I still have questions for
> which I cannot find answers in the manual or on the web.
> 
> First, thanks to the help from Koos and Thomas, I now have a better
> understanding of regular expressions, and this led me to better locate
> where my online quotation update problem lies. I realized that KMM
> downloads a csv file from the financial website an then uses regex to
> extract code, quotation and date from this csv file. The trouble is that in
> some instances the csv file doesn't contain the correct values of quotation
> and date. Therefore I suspect that the problem comes from the URL used
> (http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%1&f=sl1d1 in the case of Yahoo
> for instance). This finally brings me to my question : where could I find
> informations on how to build/adapt such URLs ? I understand that %1 is used
> to pass the equitie code but that's about all, I am puzzled by the
> "&f=sl1d1" for instance.

The %1 is about the only special part introduced by KMyMoney at this point. As 
you already mention, it is the code for the security. Another one would be %2 
which is used to retrieve currency exchange information where %1 is a 
placeholder for the code of the 'from currency' and %2 the counterpart for the 
code of the 'to currency'.

The "&f=sl1d1" is something that controls the output of the Yahoo page. 
Details are unknown and the part is usually obtained by trial and error.

> Second, and it is more a comment than a question, when I try to export a
> report it always comes out in html format, even if I chose csv format. This
> is not really a problem as I found an even quicker way to export to Libre
> Office Calc : a simple copy/paste does the job.
> 
> Thank you in advance, whatever you can do.
> 
> Regards.
> Pascal
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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