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Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:26:48 +0000

I had the same error and when I opened up regedit and searched for the related key, it wasn’t there. In fact, there wasn’t even the Intuit folder listed in HKLM>Software node. I right-clicked on the HKLM>Software node and added the Key “Intuit”. Next, I right-clicked on the Intuit key that I just created and added the key “Quicken”. Once that was done, I right-clicked the Quicken key and added a String value called ExePath. The value of the ExePath should be the path to your Quicken executable (qw.exe); mine was “C:\Program Files (x86)\Quicken\qw.exe”. I added that as the value (in quotes because of the spaces), closed the BillMinder gadget and then re-added the BillMinder gadget by right-clicking anywhere on the desktop, selecting Gadgets, right-clicking the BillMinder one, and selecting Add.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Rob

Rob — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:57:50 +0000

Thanks a lot for looking. Still, overall, brilliant so don’t waste any more of your time.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by ac

ac — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:26:15 +0000

Those URLs just explain Google API – which is a portfolio based API, not a general stock lookup. Most comments in first URL actually mention Yahoo APiIand don’t answer the google question! Additionally, the Google API requires developer keys etc, so may not be very easy to use by individual downloaders of this tools.
As for
> a=10&b=26&c=2010
URL lookup – the a= part is MONTH-1, i.e., 10 is not October, but actually November. That is how Yahoo API is defined, month is from 0 to 11. A search showed this link with some descriptions: http://code.google.com/p/yahoo-finance-managed/wiki/csvHistQuotesDownload

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Rob

Rob — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:50:53 +0000

Thanks, as ever, for speedy response. Pity about Google, remembered that other advantage was that Google also changes foreign stock prices into UK£ which is great. Oh well. Does http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885456/stock-ticker-symbol-lookup-api or http://code.google.com/apis/finance/docs/2.0/reference.html offer any ideas?

As for error it was just the one that I pasted before:

Error: could not retreive historical prices for symbol=GPOR.L
Code 404 retrieving http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?&s=GPOR.L&a=10&b
=26&c=2010&g=d

and so date was 26th October 2010 from that error. That date changes each day I run the script to the subsequent day. So for yesterday’s run the error date was 6th November 2010 which is odd as I only asked it to look back 7 days and that is 37 (month and 7 days??)…..

And, yes, this error happens with about 7-8 stocks. But not big issue, just curious. Still a great tool.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by ac

ac — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:21:03 +0000

There a lot of symbols still in the previous comment – isn’t only GPOR.L the problem? And the only error is this URL:
http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?&s=GPOR.L&a=11&b=06&c=2010&g=d

I see the same error, but the .csv file looks fine – you mentioned an error and wrong date – can you print the exact error message?

Even though historical (past week) rates for GPOR.L are not available using the Yahoo API call, it does get the latest rate.

As for Google API – that is for personal portfolio management, it does not seem to offer the lookup capabilities that Yahoo does – so, can’t use Google API.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Rob

Rob — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:47:05 +0000

Looked at QImportP.csv and, for the the shares it gets the error msg for, it has today’s price but none for the previous 6, or so, days unlike the normal shares. But why it refs a date, in the error, much longer than the requested 7 days for just those shares I don’t know.

Added arg and ran and get this:
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D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>qimportp.cmd

D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>setlocal

D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>set SYMBOLS=”AOR.L,AU.L,AZN.L,
BA.L,BATS.L,BP.L,BRBY.L,BRNE.L,BT-A.L,CAPE.L,CCL.L,CGS.L,CHS.L,CHTR.L,CKSN.L,CLL
N.L,CNA.L,COST.L,CW.L,CWC.L,DJSC.L,ECK.L,EQQQ.L,EUE.L,EXPN.L,FOGL.L,FTO.L,FXC.L,
GFS.L,GNK.L,GPOR.L”

D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>set ARGUMENTS=/automate /days:
7 /daily /div100 /dmy /v:3

D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>set WSFPATH=QImportP.wsf

D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\>cscript QImportP.wsf /s:”AOR
.L,AU.L,AZN.L,BA.L,BATS.L,BP.L,BRBY.L,BRNE.L,BT-A.L,CAPE.L,CCL.L,CGS.L,CHS.L,CHT
R.L,CKSN.L,CLLN.L,CNA.L,COST.L,CW.L,CWC.L,DJSC.L,ECK.L,EQQQ.L,EUE.L,EXPN.L,FOGL.
L,FTO.L,FXC.L,GFS.L,GNK.L,GPOR.L” /automate /days:7 /daily /div100 /dmy /v:3
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

getArgVal: what=div100 val=true
getArgVal: what=dmy val=true
Output file name = C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local\Temp\QImportP.csv
getArgVal: what=noget val=false
getArgVal: what=s val=AOR.L,AU.L,AZN.L,BA.L,BATS.L,BP.L,BRBY.L,BRNE.L,BT-A.L,C
APE.L,CCL.L,CGS.L,CHS.L,CHTR.L,CKSN.L,CLLN.L,CNA.L,COST.L,CW.L,CWC.L,DJSC.L,ECK.
L,EQQQ.L,EUE.L,EXPN.L,FOGL.L,FTO.L,FXC.L,GFS.L,GNK.L,GPOR.L
getArgVal: what=days val=7
getArgVal: what=weekly val=false
getArgVal: what=monthly val=false
D:\My Documents\Quicken\Shares for Quicken\QImportP.wsf(269, 6) Microsoft
JScript runtime error: Permission denied

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For simplicity I have removed some symbols.

Thanks for your help.

BTW, do you know how this could be adapted to run off Google Finance as it seems that has fewer problems when I view prices in browser.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Leo

Leo — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:31:20 +0000

Hello – thanks for your reply.

I got your advise and changed the script (well, at least I tried) and for now works again!
This script helps me to get quotes for Brazilian Stocks Exchange (Bovespa) via Yahoo. Unfortunately Intuit hasn’t a tool able to perform this action and this great script deserves a way for donation!

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by ac

ac — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:28:14 +0000

> Still get that odd error with some symbols though date? moving forward and now 29th Oct;
> even though I am only looking to go back 7 days

That is strange – is it retrieving more than requested data? You can open the QImportP.csv (in temp dir), and look at it to see if has the bad data.

If it does, next step, if you wish to debug it, add /v:3 argument to QImportP.cmd script, and run it in a cmd.exe window, to see all the info messages.
It will show the URL it constructs to get the values – you can copy that URL and run it in a browser yourself. If the URL looks wrong, then bug is in QImportP. If the URL looks correct, but retrieved data is wrong, then it is problem of the http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/ interface, beyond our control.

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Rob

Rob — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:19:40 +0000

I was guy who got this working in post 34. Have Q2004 deluxe in UK on W7 Pro 64bit. Works great. Even opens Quicken to import data (though that not really a bonus).

Still get that odd error with some symbols though date? moving forward and now 29th Oct; even though I am only looking to go back 7 days

Comment on Import Prices Script for Quicken by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:38:55 +0000

It would be surprising if this worked with Quicken 2011 – I’m sure Quicken changed around menus and hot-keys.

But the error above is actually before sending any keys – when you start the new Quicken, what is the title of the window? The QImportP.wsf script looks for a name starting with Quicken.
If that is correct, then – maybe it is Windows7 – did this script ever work with older Quicken on that system?
Might require editing/experimenting with the QImportP.wsf script to get it working.
Anyway – you don’t need this script for Q2011, right? That must not been obsoleted by Intuit yet, so it should be able to pull in quotes from Intuit itself.