[Kmymoney] KMM - still other questions ...

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-10-03 17:01 GMT+03:00 Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de>:
> 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.

A search reveals some documentation like this [1] and [2].

Regards,
Cristian

[1] https://code.google.com/p/yahoo-finance-managed/wiki/csvQuotesDownload
[2] https://code.google.com/p/yahoo-finance-managed/wiki/enumQuoteProperty

>
>> 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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