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mcian
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Online Quotes -Canada

Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:11 pm
For anyone interested, a working configuration for getting online mutual fund quotes from the Globe & Mail is as follows. It uses the GreatWest Life subdomain to allow access to Class F funds.

Settings - Configure KMyMoney - Online Quotes - Globe & Mail
Url http://www.globefund.greatwestlife.com/ ... undsymbol=%1
Symbol %1
Price Current Price: \$(.*) Daily
Date As of (.*) Current
Date Format %m %d %y

Leave Skip HTML Stripping unchecked
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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:30 pm
Thank you for sharing this detail. I was having trouble downloading information on TD investments. Thanks to your post, my problem has been resolved.
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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:48 am
It looks like GreatWestLife has revamped their site and the URL is dead. An alternative is to setup TMX Money

URL http://web.tmxmoney.com/funds-ca-quote.php?qm_symbol=%1
Symbol %1
Price \$<span>((?:\d*\.)\d+)<\/span>
Date <\/h2>\n(.*)<\/div>
Date Format %m %d %y

CHECK ON Skip HTML Stripping (the HTML tags are needed to parse the date)
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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:32 pm
mcian wrote:It looks like GreatWestLife has revamped their site and the URL is dead. An alternative is to setup TMX Money

URL http://web.tmxmoney.com/funds-ca-quote.php?qm_symbol=%1
Symbol %1
Price \$<span>((?:\d*\.)\d+)<\/span>
Date <\/h2>\n(.*)<\/div>
Date Format %m %d %y

CHECK ON Skip HTML Stripping (the HTML tags are needed to parse the date)


Thank you for this. I'm going to keep this code in my back pocket for use in the event my existing strategy fails.

I noticed the Great West Life failure a week or so ago when none of my Mutual Funds would update. When I couldn't figure out how to fix the GW link I started looking at other providers. In the end I managed to get The Globe & Mail site working. Doing so meant changing the Symbol ID of each affected fund. Everything else, code and other fund details remained the same.

During trouble shooting I discovered many On-Line quote providers use a Symbol ID that differs from the ID provided by the fund holder. To find the funds Symbol ID used by the Globe & Mail I used their search engine, entered the fund name and established the Symbol ID based on URL returned (The last part of the URL contains the fund ID). Once I discovered this I simply update each fund with the revised Symbol ID then pointed the Online Tool to the Globe & Mail site. It wasn't my preferred solution but it worked so I was happy.

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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:42 pm
Ops, posted this message in error!

Couldn't figure out how to delete.
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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Sun Oct 25, 2015 6:37 pm
HI, sorry for posting to an older thread. I followed the instructions provided by mcian (and thanks for that!). but I'm receiving an error:

Fetching URL http://web.tmxmoney.com/funds-ca-quote. ... ENB.PR.P...
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''. .
Unable to update price for ENB.PR.P (empty quote data)

I have no idea how to resolve this? or what the error is pointing to...

if anyone can assist, very appreciated.
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Ok..it appears I had a space where there shouldn't have been from a copy paste...appears to be working ... thanks
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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:44 pm
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 which includes KMY 5.0. The online quote window has changed slight but still works fine for TMX Money. A strong reminder to watch for leading or trailing spaces in entering the fields. I wasted some time puzzling out why it wasn't working when I copied a leading space in my own data.

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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:50 am
TMX has done some irritating reformatting. The following reg exp has been working for me. Some extra spaces in the Price (add \s+), and a different position for Date.

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Re: Online Quotes -Canada

Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:21 pm
mcian wrote:TMX has done some irritating reformatting. The following reg exp has been working for me. Some extra spaces in the Price (add \s+), and a different position for Date.

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Thank you for this. Quotes are working for me now.


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