Finance::Quote returns nothing and no error

bulrush has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using Finance::Quote 1.35 with Strawberry Perl 5.18.2 (built for MSwin32-x86-multi-thread-64int) in Windows 8 cmd window. Also have McAfee Security Center 12.8.988, McAfee Anti-Virus 16.8.819, McAfee Personal Firewall 13.8. Strawberry Perl is running on a flash drive if that matters.

Here's my subroutine.

sub getquote
{my($sym,$qdate)=@_; # Symbol is 'googl' in lowercase and date is '201
+40822'.
my($dt,$quote,$s,$t,$procname,$exch);
my(%info,@exchanges);

$procname="getquote";

$sym=uc($sym);

# First qet quote.
# Do not load Yahoo::Base.
#$quote=Finance::Quote->new("-defaults","Fidelity","Yahoo::USA","Tiaac
+ref");
$quote=Finance::Quote->new; # Loads 116 default exchanges.
@exchanges=sort($quote->sources); # See all exchanges here.
$quote->timeout(60);
$quote->require_labels(qw/success errormsg price date exchange name/);
$quote->set_currency("USD");
$exch="usa";
%info=$quote->fetch($exch,$sym,'A','MSFT');
if (! %info)
    {
    $s="$procname ERROR: No information returned for symbol $sym from 
+$exch";
    writeerr($s);
    return; # getquote()
    }
$dt=$info{$sym,'date'};
print "Price of $sym is ".$info{$sym,'price'}." for ".$dt."\n"; # DEBU
+G
 

return; # getquote
}
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Right after the $quote->fetch I do at the debugger prompt "print Dumper(\%info)" and I get this: "$VAR1 = {};" which indicates the hash has nothing in it.

Has anyone else gotten F::Q working in a command box on Win 8?
Any ideas what may be going wrong? I'm stumped.

Thanks.

Got it. This line:

$quote->require_labels(qw/success errormsg price date exchange name/);
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has invalid labels but F::Q doesn't give an error msg. So this line works:

$quote->require_labels(qw/price date exchange name/);
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I can also remove the above line and F::Q still returns all data it can about the equity. F::Q really needs better error checking, but I think I have to have an account to file a bug report.

Perl 5.8.8 on Redhat Linux RHEL 5.5.56 (64-bit)

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Re: Finance::Quote returns nothing and no error
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Sep 06, 2014 at 13:32 UTC

Hello bulrush,

By making some changes to your code I was able to get this result (running from the command line under Windows 8.1):

23:25 >perl 1001_SoPW.pl
Price of GOOGL is 597.78 for 09/05/2014

23:25 >
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Here is my revised script:

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The major change is to the line:

$quote->require_labels(qw/success errormsg price date exchange name/);
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which I replaced with this line:

$quote->require_labels(qw/price date high low volume/);
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copied from the “SYNOPSIS” section of the module’s documentation. I conclude that the module works, you just need to tweak the label settings.

BTW: Please note that Perl variables are best declared at the point of first use. Also, the second parameter to sub getquote is unused.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^2: Finance::Quote returns nothing and no error

by pshen (Initiate) on Oct 11, 2018 at 07:29 UTC

C:\strawberryPerl\scripts>perl getStockPrice2.pl
getquote ERROR: No information returned for symbol GOOGL from usa at g
+etStockPri
ce2.pl line 24.

C:\strawberryPerl\scripts>
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use strict;
use warnings;
use Finance::Quote;

getquote('googl', '20140822');
my $s;
sub getquote
{
    my ($sym, $qdate) = @_;
        $sym          = uc($sym);
    my  $quote        = Finance::Quote->new;
    my  @exchanges    = sort($quote->sources);

    $quote->timeout(60);
    $quote->require_labels(qw/price date high low volume/);
    $quote->set_currency('USD');

    my $exch = 'usa';
    my %info = $quote->fetch($exch, $sym, 'A', 'MSFT');

    if (!%info)
    {
        $s = "getquote ERROR: No information returned for symbol $sym 
+from $exch";
        warn $s;
        return;
    }

    my $dt = $info{$sym, 'date'};
    print "Price of $sym is " . $info{$sym, 'price'} . ' for ' . $dt .
+ "\n"; # DEBUG
}
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Re^3: Finance::Quote returns nothing and no error

by poj (Abbot) on Oct 11, 2018 at 13:15 UTC

Looks like the API was terminated last year. Also see Finance::YahooQuote which now says

NOTE: As of November 2017, the module is no longer all that useful as Yahoo! decided to halt the API service it relies on.

Some info is available using yahoo_json if you have a recent version of Finance::Quote

use strict;
use warnings;
use Finance::Quote;
use Data::Dumper;

printf "Version : %s\n", $Finance::Quote::VERSION;

my $q = Finance::Quote->new();
$q->timeout(60);
$q->set_currency("USD");

my $stock = 'googl';
my $info = $q->fetch("yahoo_json",$stock);
print Dumper $info;
printf "Latest price for %s is %s", $info->{$stock,'name'},$info->{$st
+ock,'last'};
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