Finance::Quote for Indian Mutual Fund NAvs

[Divakar Ramachandran]

I am replying to my own post - Guess no one else with Indian Mutual
Funds is using GnuCash!

The problem turned out to be quite simple:

The perl module IndiaMutual.pm has a line

            $AMFI_NAV_LIST = "/tmp/amfinavlist.txt"

and (this is on WinXP) I do not have a /tmp path. Changing the line to

            $AMFI_NAV_LIST = "/temp/amfinavlist.txt"

solves the problem. I know this is a Perl thing and not directly related
to gnuCash, but amposting anyway with hope that it is useful.

Best wishes,
Div.


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 22:53 +0530, Divakar Ramachandran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if anybody is successfully using finance::quote for
> getting Indian Mutual Fund NAVs, and if so what unique symbols they have
> used to identify funds. As per the CPAN.org man page for Finance::Quote,
> the two sources for Indian Mutual Fund NAVs are amfiindia and
> indiamutual, which get the NAVs based on IDs used by AMFI India on their
> website at http://amfiindia.com/downloadnavopen.asp.
> 
> I have used the following command that does not yield the NAVs:
>        perl gnc-fq-dump amfiindia nnnnnn
> 
> where nnnnnn is one of the index numbers listed. One example is 103883
> which corresponds to SBI Mutual Fund Magnum Tax Gain Scheme Dividend. I
> have also tried many other IDs listed on the page and none of them have
> worked.
> 
> The following works on the same system yielding the correct stock price:
>        perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo TCS.NS
>        perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo MSFT
> 
> So, is this a Finance::Quote bug? Or, has something changed in the way
> GnuCash parses the info / AMFI provides the data (AMFI has so far not
> responded to my query posted on their web contact page)? Or, am I doing
> it totally wrong way?
> 
> Best Wishes to all,
> Divakar
> 
> 
> Divakar R
> Anupuram, TN 603127, INDIA
> 
> 
> 
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