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Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby TerryWood » February 3rd, 2024, 4:09 pm

Hi Kiloran

You are right it's all over the place. As I said previously Yahoo is not reliable.

Only one problem with prices derived from FT.com. Fund prices are often delivered (by the Fund managers) to three or four decimal places but FT,Com rounds them down to two decimal places. Which can make a significant difference in a portfolio with a lot of funds.

Thanks again for looking at this and let's hope Yahoo reverts back to how it used to be.

Terry

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby mc2fool » February 3rd, 2024, 5:30 pm

TerryWood wrote:Hi Kiloran

You are right it's all over the place. As I said previously Yahoo is not reliable.

Only one problem with prices derived from FT.com. Fund prices are often delivered (by the Fund managers) to three or four decimal places but FT,Com rounds them down to two decimal places. Which can make a significant difference in a portfolio with a lot of funds.

Thanks again for looking at this and let's hope Yahoo reverts back to how it used to be.

Terry

:lol: LOL! Well that's not much of a hope -- Yahoo was always unreliable! It just varied on how unreliable it was! :D

At least now their "closing" price is actually the same as the LSE close. Previously Yahoo just showed the price of the last trade, and as trades can continue after the market closes Yahoo's closing price was often different to everywhere else.

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby PeteHutch » Yesterday, 7:35 pm

Anybody else having problems downloading prices today?

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby kiloran » Yesterday, 7:49 pm

PeteHutch wrote:Anybody else having problems downloading prices today?

Hi Pete. It would be helpful if you specified which version you are using, and which price source.
I just tried the Excel and LibreOffice versions of the Simple Price Scrape. Both worked OK using the SharePrice price source. The Excel version worked OK for Yahoo, but the LibreOffice version failed. I also found the same problem with HYPTUSS using LibreOffice.

I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads-up

--kiloran

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby Instep » Yesterday, 7:54 pm

It's working for me. :)
Cheers.
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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby Instep » Yesterday, 7:57 pm

Sorry, I missed Kiloran's post.
Many Thanks to one of the originators.

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby kiloran » Yesterday, 7:58 pm

Instep wrote:It's working for me. :)
Cheers.
Instep

By "it", do you mean the LibreOffice version using the Yahoo price source?

--kiloran

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby Instep » Yesterday, 8:01 pm

Sorry, No. I'm using the Excel version.

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby mike » Yesterday, 10:26 pm

I've been having problems since yesterday with the Yahoo downloads. All return blank.

The SharePrice page works fine.

I did download a new copy from the weebly, and the same problem with Yahoo occurred. SharePrice was fine (except of course the now-matured Gilt TN24)

Simple_Price_Scrape_2-1.ods
Libre Office 7.4.7.2 (x64)
Windows 10

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Re: Simple Price Scrape enhancement now includes Yahoo

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Postby PeteHutch » Yesterday, 11:09 pm

kiloran wrote:
PeteHutch wrote:Anybody else having problems downloading prices today?

Hi Pete. It would be helpful if you specified which version you are using, and which price source.
I just tried the Excel and LibreOffice versions of the Simple Price Scrape. Both worked OK using the SharePrice price source. The Excel version worked OK for Yahoo, but the LibreOffice version failed. I also found the same problem with HYPTUSS using LibreOffice.

I'll have a look at it tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads-up

--kiloran



Sorry for the delay in replying and the lack of information. Yes, I'm using Yahoo on libreoffice price scrape version 2.1 .


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