Comments for the last post had extended beyond ~200, so starting a new thread. The theme de jour in recent discussion is that support for ofx is fading quick, and how it impacts the continued use of Money. It's not an easy decision if, like me, you have decades of transactions in Money and generally find it to be easy, functional and super reliable.
Being a long time Discover user, I was recently pushed to "do something", which led to writing a csv-2-ofx converter while also doing a bit of custom scripting to migrate my entire Money history into Excel as a "plan B". While both paths proved successful, I can say with certainty that tracking things in a spreadsheet doesn't match the double-entry accounting of Money and the built-in checks & balances it provides. Not close, really. The benefit it offers, though, is flexibility for viewing/analyzing the data to your hearts content (for those who like numbers and spreadsheets, that is). There's also the obvious benefit of using supported software with a large user base, vs a very small (and ever shrinking) pool of ardent MS-Money users like ourselves ;)
That said... this is really just a new post for comments, should there be any.
-Robert
We may ask you to share your converter someday. I'm thinking I'll use Money "forever", even if I have to enter everything manually, but at that point, it will probably be just for investments and bank account statements/transactions, but no longer recording individual credit card transactions.
ReplyDelete@Robert - in the last thread you mentioned that Plaid only allows OAUTH for one institution in dev mode. Their web site indicates up to "100 items (Institution logins)" are these different?
ReplyDelete@Cal - I concur with your concern about third party aggregators of financial information. To be fair, I also remember when there was a lot of concern about Money (and evil Microsoft) having your credentials, even if kept locally. Having said that, regardless of the concern, it really seems like there is no other viable alternative other than just using a Bank's web site for manual downloads. There is an anti-trust/privacy/bank abuse case lurking in here that if I had more time I would write letters to Congress critters, SEC, etc. Seems like the kind of thing Elizabeth Warren would get spun up by. But even then it is unlikely that anything would come out of it, and if it did it would likely be years.
Carlos: You read it the same as I... but the initial communication from Plaid incuded verbage that more clearly defined boundaries for "developer" access. Part of it is that OAUTH is limited to one bank (BoA iirc), and that a Production agreement would be required to do more. A production contract would include fees, but since I didn't progress to that point I don't know what they are. The contract makes sense, actually, since it forces a level of user authentication not possible without them doing some work on their end.
DeleteAnother fyi... for folks that continue using Money going forward, I don't see hassle w/ using manual downloads to get either ofx or csv, and I suspect csv will always be offered. Most of "our" current transactions are via Discover and my local credit union (checking), neither of which provide direct/ofx. It takes less than a minute once a week to login to both and download the files. The workflow I'm using at the moment (testing) is to download files then run a worker script that a) converts csv files to ofx and puts them into the ps import folder, b) runs getdata to finish the job and zip everything into one import, and c) accept in Money. A nice (unexpected) result of using csv is there's no need for "scrubbing" or worrying about odd ofx parameters. The ofx structure is controlled by the converter.
ReplyDeleteHi Robert, whenever you perfect the new workflow, it would be much appreciated if you could upload your scripts. It would be cool to convert the current scripts to work with both direct OFX accounts and manual ones. So in each account you could specify whether it is direct or manual, and for manual you could also specify the format of the file CSV or QFX or OFX or whatever. And then the scripts just handle everything regardless of the source/format of the input data. That would be awesome.
DeleteI started using money on 6/16/1999 and there is zero chance I am using anything else. I've tried a few others programs and they all are far inferior. So far I have been able to manage the loss of OFX..
ReplyDeleteWhen discover died I moved to amex as primary card
When Chase died I just moved to Citi as backup card
When Chase Amazon dies I moved to amex amazon as amazon card
I use Fidelity, Etrade and Vanguard as brokerages all which work fine.
Pocketsense also gets all my stock and fund prices.
I have always had to enter manually the few transactions from my local bank - But most are just monthly autodrafts which are set up in the Money Bills section so basically zero work.
In a few minutes a week I can see where all my money went, make sure everything will balance, see all account balances and run a net worth report that goes back 20+ years by month.
I currently don't have any needs for csv.
When I was moving from chase to Citi I had to manually log into their site and download the quicken file and import it into money for a few weeks. It worked but more than doubled my time to log and and do all that work when before it just came automatically. No thank you, I'm spoiled, Chase accounts closed now. Not like they care or even understand, but I certainly told them that's why I'm leaving.
This board has been very helpful in finding places that still support OFX and while I won't use some of the other OFX commercial personal finance software I am rooting for them to keep things open and away from quicken. Until ever last one of them is gone I will keep buying Robert coffee for building these amazing scripts.
I'm in the same boat as you. Have been using since 1992, and have found it the best way to track investments. I also have been using Robert's code since he made it available and very appreciative.
DeleteI also plan on using MS Money until no longer viable.
I'm using a free tool called ImportQIF to do my CSV to QIF conversions for Chase, Discover, my credit union, and several investment accounts that never supported OFX. It lets you define the mapping for all your accounts and process the conversion with just a few clicks. Then you import it using the File->Import->Recover Account menu in Money. You have to be careful with the date range to avoid duplicates but it simplifies the process a lot. It works for bank accounts and investments. https://www.quicknperlwiz.com.
ReplyDeletePocketSense is so much nicer for the sites it still works on, but I can see the trend like everyone else. I've looked at the non-quicken alternatives and even after 12+ years Money is so much better I won't switch willingly.
Thanks Robert for keeping this going!
I wonder if someone can build a SimpleFin - OFX conversion tool... So essentially an app that you can connect to the SimpleFin bridge (only costs $1.50/month here: https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/), get all the transactions and output a merged ofx file that can then be imported into Money (or in my case, YNAB 4).
ReplyDeleteSince my primary credit card bank is BoA, I have been able to set up auto-downloads via Plaid.com's development environment (using their postman collection). It all comes down as .json files, so now I "just" need to create a converter....but at least it is a lifeline. I will investigate whether they will let me get to my Chase credit cards without having to pay... but this is a start at least. Robert, if you could share your csv to ofx converter that would be of tremendous help!
ReplyDeleteOK. Got Discover, so stuck. But it's not hard to handle CSV->OFX for credit cards -- there are really only two types of transactions. For examples I went to two other banks where I have credit cards, Citi and CapitalOne. They both allow downloads from their websites for CSV *and* OFX. Compare the contents -- easy peasy. Note that they use different parts of the OFX spec (one uses the other ) -- makes no real difference to Money.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing I'm playing with involves going to the Dark Side. Create a mint.com account. Put in Discover Card. Magic. Transactions downloaded!
ReplyDeleteWell the next thing is to install mintapi ( https://github.com/mintapi/mintapi ). I used the docker version. Then setup the Authenticator App -- see instructions in the README.md on github. Then do from your linux CLI:
docker run -i --rm --shm-size=2g ghcr.io/mintapi/mintapi mintapi --headless --use-chromedriver-on-path --mfa-method soft-token --mfa-token --transactions
and Voila!. You get a lot of JSON output. Just need to convert a small subset to OFX.
I'll just put the "difficult" accounts in Mint. Probably will have the JSON consumer write a different .ofx for each account and move them all to pocketsense/import/.
I have pepperfox installed, but I can't setup Mint to use TOTP to get a soft token. Any suggestions?
DeleteI figured this out! Thanks for the suggestion. I only have one account left that I can use without the pepperfox workaround. Now I'm having issues with FileThis. It's not fectching my pdf statements. If anyone has any suggestions - please feel free. I feel like we are going backward and not forward with technology in the personal finance sector.
DeleteDid you try these instructions:
DeleteSet mfa_token as follows: go to your Mint settings, navigate through Intuit Account -> Sign In & Security -> Two-step verification. From there, enable either text or email as desired. After that, start the process to enable the Authenticator app option and when you get to the part where you see the QR code, copy the manual setup code that appears next to it. BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU STORE THIS, as anyone with it will be able to take over your Mint account. This is the token you pass to mfa_token in either the python api or from the command line.
Note that if you already have TOTP enabled on your account, you will first have to disable and delete the old TOTP before setting up a new one.
Robert, I just want to thank you for keeping us all afloat for as long as you have. I've used Money since the early 90's. About 5 years ago I began using Quicken as well, but using your scripts, I've kept a Money file with just investments going all these years thanks to you. I'm just happier with the way Money calculated returns and the options it gives me for looking at my portfolio. Schwab and others have made this exceeding difficult, and I think I'm just going to keep the Money file going manually, but I've always been very grateful for your work and didn't want to walk away from this without offering a big, heartfelt, THANK YOU.
ReplyDelete--Steve B., Wisconsin
Seconded. Much appreciated Robert.
Delete-Jon L., Seattle
Woo Hoo! Got my first .ofx from pepperfox for my Discover credit card. After some tinkering got it past the OFX Data Analyzer" and imported into Money. Even matched the couple of transactions I had input manually.
ReplyDeleteOK. Got something that seems to work for getting .ofx files for Discover and other credit card transactions. If @Robert or anyone feels like having some excitement you can get more info from https://pepperfox.biggianthead.org .
ReplyDeleteAs others have already stated, THANK YOU! for all the work you've done to keep MS Money alive and usable over the years. Not being a programmer or Linux user I don't think I can implement the previous suggestions about using pepperfox. I took a look and it just seems to be above my capabilities. If someone has simplified things that'll work for a Win 11 system to bridge between Mint and Money please post it here. Robert, if you're willing to share your .csv to .ofx converter that, too, would be a great help. Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays to all.
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DeleteIt will work on Windows 11, with the usual Windows pain. You need to install "Docker Desktop" from the Docker site and "Ubuntu 22.04" from the Microsoft Store. You probably have to google to find out the tricks to getting those two parts running (I remember a couple of powershell commands you need to cut and paste). The Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store just runs -- you don't have to manage "partitions" or ".iso files" on your own.
DeleteI'm starting with the premise that OFX servers are dying or dead (all my bank accounts are gone, all my investment accounts remain, at least for now). Furthermore for this question I will presume that we all want to remain on Money or some similar "legacy" management software and retain a level of automated "one button" downloads.
ReplyDeleteI have seen three viable alternatives suggested so far. All will require some flavor of annual/monthly fee, but I think that is unavoidable at this point if the goal is to have automated downloads. The three options suggested so far:
- Plaid.com - May have some ability to do limited downloads for free. Well known aggregator.
- Mint.com - It's own management software. Access via a screen scrapper utility. I am nervous of screen scrappers as they can easily break.
- SimpleFin.org- Another aggregator. I don't know much about them, and it looks like nobody has gotten it working yet.
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on these.
I've got the minty flavor working pretty well. If you get path the authentication part it isn't screen scraping, as their backend returns good .json files. FYI the derivation: (pepper --> mint; fox --> ofx). Does credit cards and will soon do savings and checking accounts.
DeleteFeel free to look at https://pepperfox.biggianthead.org .
The Plaid.com route is working quite well, but if you need Chase, Wells Fargo, Capital One, or USAA you may be out of luck as they require OAuth authentication that is only available in their production environment, which means you would have to qualify as a bona fide developer (Robert mentioned this in another post I believe) and such downloads would also be charged by Plaid. However, for other banks (including BoA) you can gain access in the development environment, which is free. I just finished writing a .json to .ofx converter and now have checking and credit card accounts working and importing to Money just fine, including for accounts that never even supported downloading transactions in the first place, which is a nice bonus.
DeleteGetting set up in plaid isn't too onerous, but still quite a bit more complex compared to the relative simplicity of Pocketsense.
I considered the Plaid route but went with pepperfox (which uses Mint) and have Chase, Capital One, as well as Discover working. OFX isn't difficult for banking stuff; it's more tricky for brokerages.
DeleteFYI I just released version 2.0 of pepperfox that supports checking and savings accounts as well as credit cards.
ReplyDeleteThis morning downloaded 14 ofx files in 2.5 minutes that I had to usually manually download from a bunch of different banks (including 3 from Discover that were previously, well, you know).
I thought I'd add a hint, in case it hasn't been discussed before (re current/dev version).
ReplyDeleteYou will only be able to process web portal ofx/qfx downloads saved to the "import" folder if you choose option 6 in the Setup script to enable quotes.- this will be especially helpful if you end up deleting all of your accounts in Pocketsense because they no longer offer ofx downloads, as Pocketsense will otherwise have nothing to process.
Asking here as this seems to be the most active site regarding MS Money. Is Ultrasoft Moneylink usable with 64 bit Office 365? I have made the appropriate changes in the `Declare` statements, but am getting a "Class not Registered" error when trying to run the add-in. I have tried re-registering dll's and repairing Office 365 to no avail.
ReplyDeleteRon, since this is Pocketsense-specific forum I think you might be much better off posting in the Microsoft Money Google Group for assistance: https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft-money (it is a fairly active community, and you'll see a lot of the same people there).
DeleteThat said, 32-bit plug-ins generally don't work with the 64-bit version of Excel (they need to be recompiled). You might just be better off running side-by-side versions of Office if there is no 64-bit version available. I have no experience with Moneylink, but I am doing the same with the classic XL2QIF plugin)
@djevel Thank you for that link. I looked for it first but couldn't find it. Hence my question here.
DeleteCal, I've downloaded your Fidelity scrublet, now that I have a Fidelity account. I had to rename it to scrub_Fidel, since Pocketsense didn't like the full name, and I changed the CUSIP at the end to 31617H102 for SPAXX. Then I realized that you have all this built into your scrub_c15a scrublet, so I made the change there instead and got rid of scrub_Fidel. Perhaps the scrub(Fidelity) function in scrub_c15a is why there was a clash. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt's optional, and if you can get the timeOffset right, and if you don't download on sunday or Monday, or if you don't care if the dates on the recorded price history shows prices for Saturday and Sunday dates, its certainly very good. So the bulk of my Fidelity scrubbing is to try to get the dates right on the price history.
DeleteI also take out the buy transactions for the core position so that the cash balance shows your cash position. It's a preference. That facilitates matching the running balance when you view the website Fidelity history for a single account.
I also remove INCREASE COLLATERAL and DECREASE COLLATERAL transactions. Not everybody gets those, and if you don't, nothing to remove.
I also pretty print the OFX file, and I don't worry if this gets done twice.
NxtTek, good deal. I first made the all-in-one, which evolved to scrub_cl5A.py. I thought the all-in-one might bother some, so I also made an a la carte version. But yes, you would not want both. scrub_cl5A.txt should have made that clearer. Feel free to make suggestions or to make your own clearer instructions.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I hope it works well for you. Feel free to give feedback or complaint. It has been a while since I looked at the code, but I think I could figure out what is going on if you had a question.
I normally have a batch file run Tuesday thru Saturday early in the morning. It is best to do the downloading in the morning until maybe midnight ET. The penalty is not severe-- if you download at 2am, the quotes may get the wrong dates. Transaction dates are always OK. Since the market is closed Monday Jan 2, it is best to not download on Tuesday. Otherwise it will probably think last Friday's closing prices are for Monday.
How did you get your Python 2.7.xx-- ActiveState?
I downloaded the Python package at the bottom of the page https://www.activestate.com/products/python/
DeleteCreate a GitHub account and log in.
While I still believe the plaid.com route is cleaner and likely a more durable long-term solution with fewer dependencies, I will need to invest some effort into qualifying for general oauth access in order to access some of the bigger US financial institutions. Honestly, gaining this level of access with the plaid.com team is probably too onerous for most people still using Money... However, in the meantime I was able to implement MintAPI successfully in Windows. Big H/T to Fur Rari for pointing us to this solution!
ReplyDeleteMy plaid.com .json to .ofx converter required only minor edits to work with the MintAPI output and I have now several credit cards/checking accounts/savings accounts working with this method (US Bank, Chase, BoA, and Capital One). While the end result is likely very similar to Fur Rari's Pepperfox solution, it might be more accessible to some since it works out of the box in Windows. The setup is relatively straightforward and I'd be happy to provide a step-by-step guide if there is any interest (along with my python conversion tool which works with the same python 2.7 installation that Pocketsense uses).
Now onto investment accounts in the anticipation that those will start disappearing next....
Good. Though I got pepperfox running on Windows 10 and 11 using WSL2. You won't have luck with MintAPI for investments, as their transaction data is missing key stuff, like shares traded. They treat it more like a credit-card transaction, just listing the total dollar amount.
DeleteYou might look at Personal Capital -- I got it to cough up transaction data for brokerages (in json form) that has shares traded and other important stuff. Didn't finish "productizing" it because I don't need it yet and OFX for brokerages is a lot harder than for banks. Already did one brokerage OFX thing and only did the parts I needed, but not options, bonds, and such.
Hi djevel - I would be interested in a step-by-step guide for using the MintAPI in Windows to ofx; I'm mainly looking for Chase checking and credit cards. Maybe Citi credit cards as well.
DeleteWell pepperfox will do it for you. And does work with Chase and Citi accounts.
DeleteIt does work on Windows 10 or 11, with the usual Windows pain. You need to install "Docker Desktop" from the Docker site and "Ubuntu 22.04" from the Microsoft Store. You probably have to google to find out the tricks to getting those two parts running (I remember a couple of powershell commands you need to cut and paste). The Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store just runs -- you don't have to manage "partitions" or ".iso files" on your own.
I appreciate that - but I think that's one too many applications to install just for Chase (I see that Citi is still supported, just needed the new URL, plus credential setup). Right now I manually download the qfx and rename them to ofx and double-click and they get imported. I was already on the fence about paying for Mint just for that, plus docker and the associated setup for Windows may be more than I'm up for right now.
Delete@mxw . Email me at djevel at live dot com and I'll do my best to get you set up. No Docker required.
DeleteWell you don't have to pay for Mint -- it's free. And if you want to use mintapi without docker you still need to set up a Mint account.
DeleteI've used your script for many years to update stock quotes without issue, but I'm not having success in obtaining transactions from Fidelity. When I enter my Username and Password I get the following message:
ReplyDelete"An error occurred requesting accounts from the site. Please check username and password."
Here's the information I've added to sites.dat:
SiteName : Fidelity
AcctType : INVSTMT
fiorg : Fidelity
fid : 7776
url : https://ofx.fidelity.com/ftgw/OFX/clients/download
bankid :
brokerid : fidelity.com
ofxVer :
appid :
appver :
mininterval:
timeOffset :
delay :
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you
See the settings on my blog page, as the Fidelity works for me (I think just adding the 443 will do it).
Deletehttps://microsoftmoneyoffline.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/cal-learners-review-fidelity-401k-citi-card-and-vanguard-account-info/
Hi whm,
DeleteTry this...
Add .com to fiorg: fidelity.com
Add :443 to url: https://ofx.fidelity.com:443/ftgw/OFX/clients/download
Thank you for the advice. In addition to adding the :443 I had to change fiorg from "Fidelity" to "fidelity.com" as shown on your Blog.
ReplyDeleteRegards
So I recently moved my HSA to Fidelity and was pleasantly surprised that all my transactions for my HSA are now nicely imported into money. It got me thinking, since right now I do not have a bank that automatically important my regular checking account transactions and I am typing them in like a caveman while all my other transactions fly right in... does Fidelity have a checking account?
ReplyDeleteWell they sorta do with the Cash Management account.. https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/fidelity-cash-management-account/overview
Does anyone use that and does it import everything in just like it does for my Brokerage and now HSA accounts?
Yes, the Fidelity CMA account works quite well; I am currently using it as my primary checking account. My biggest gripe is that it doesn't support Zelle...
DeleteNo issue with downloading transactions, but if you buy stocks/money market funds in the account it can sometimes be tricky to know exactly how much cash you have on hand at all times (and the auto-redemption of money market funds create additional transactions to keep track of). If you leave everything in (the default) FDIC cash then none of that is an issue.
Thanks, very helpful!
DeleteThanks for this tool. i'm just trying to set it up now. I ran setup.py through cmd and pressed "0" to exit to create the sites.dat file. However, I'm looking at the file path where setup.py is stored and I don't see any new file called sites.dat. Any ideas on where I should look?
ReplyDeleteYou create a sites.dat file yourself, in order to proceed with Pocketsense. You should be able to find the settings for all of your banks on my blog page: https://microsoftmoneyoffline.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/cal-learners-review-fidelity-401k-citi-card-and-vanguard-account-info/
DeleteIs the folder with the setup.py and other files in a folder within your documents folder? If not, you could have a permissions thing holding you back.
ReplyDelete1. Here is a cmd line to run to look for that. It takes time. Where it ended up could be diagnostic:
dir \sites.dat /s
That will take a while. If you find that file in a funny place, and it is recently dated, Also, you can copy and paste into a control window, if you search out how.
2. You could copy sites.template to sites.dat, and start from there. If you want site descriptor for a particular site, say so. Say Broker, Bank or Credit card. Note Banks are rare.
3. I could probably make my sites.dat available. Includes Fidelity Investments, Citicard, and more.
Two tries to include contents in a post failed: too long.
From September 2021 post, "cl5A_sites.dat.example is a copy of my sites.dat." So I think that could be useful to you-- use the link and copy tha filet to sites.dat. There are scrubber files in there also, for use with the DEV version.
Delete====================================
New scrub_cl5A.zip contains
scrub_cl5A.py scrub_cl5A.txt scrub_cl5X.py.debug cl5A_sites.dat.example
zip available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rs_iFKHyq17yjTxHw-xfs5bFLxslULUJ/view?usp=sharing
scrub_cl5A.txt is a file with info like below, plus thoughts on how to implement substitution in a better way. It is not a howto.
Multiple inappropriate running of Citibank import scrubber addressed by looking for stuff in ofx rather than in parameters passed in.
Cleaned up superfluous temporary debugging prints but kept them in scrub_cl5X.py.debug for possible reuse.
cl5A_sites.dat.example is a copy of my sites.dat.
scrub_c15B is available at https://www.mediafire.com/file/1cf9rw7p1afj5xk/scrub_cl5B.py/file
Deleteit is Cal's routine with the addition of:
#2023/1/31 NxtTek changed Fidelity CUSIP to match SPAXX, rather than FDRXX; remove MEMOs from Fidelity + PNC downloads
I downloaded scrub_cl5B.py, and I think I will use that as the base for the next version I do.
Delete=====
I like MEMO for some things. So maybe something would be better than deleting all memos. I have not proposed a method for that, except to maybe make that an easy to choose true/fals option. Or maybe something more complex is worthwhile. Here are some MEMOs:
"YOU SOLD REDEEMED TO" is lame/redundant
"DIVIDEND RECEIVED" is lame
"YOU BOUGHT PROSPECTUS" is lame
"DIRECT DEBIT CARDMEMBER SERWEB PYMT" is helpful but too long.
"DIRECT DEBIT CITI AUTOPAY PAYMENT" maybe helpful. NAME is "DIRECT DEBIT CITI
"FOREIGN TAX PAID" is helpful
"LATE SETTLEMENT FEE" is ADR/ADS fee. Memo duplicates NAME so lame
"ROYALTY TR PYMT" is helpful
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I am thinking of having a scrub_*.py file in each distribution with the same name all of the time. Maybe two files in each distro: one always named scrub_cl.py (for example) and another named scrub_cl.py.vers_cl5c etc (as a version archive). The version one would be ignored by PocketSense. The scrub_cl.py copy would overwrite the current, after a warning, one when pasted.
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I also have plans for the remove_unwanted_OFX_transactions1() function to be able to accept either a single string parameter, as it does currently, but to also be able to accept a list. The reasons are that there are 3 Fidelity MMFs that can be used as core accounts. A single person may have accounts with different core positions. Also, a new user may not want to figure out the CUSIP for the core position, and it would be nice to make that configuration unneeded. Also, if the OFX server goes away, and we somehow produce an OFX file from a CSV, the CSV does not contain a CUSIP. Maybe we will derive a substitute CUSIP from the symbol. So accepting a list might make it easier. I am pretty sure how to do that. A possible thought for a Fidelity string is
fid_list_mmfs= ['____FDRXX','316067107','____SPAXX','31617H102','____FZFXX','316341304']
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These are pretty simple. I have complex ideas, but let's stay simple now. Comments on these or others, by anybody?
Actually "DIVIDEND RECEIVED" is very useful. Some brokerages don't do dividends correctly (even ones that had OFX servers) -- you had to look at the comment to tell that some "dividends" were actually long-term/short-term capital gains.
DeleteYou don't really have to use the real CUSIP -- just have to be consistent. I have a function "fakecusip" in one of my OFX things to make up something from the ticker. There are cases where when you "extract data" from someplace that you have a real cusip only in the "current holdings" section but you have transactions where you sold all of a security but only have ticker symbols and no cusips at all.
ReplyDeleteThere is also a real broker that uses some private 6-digit thing there instead of a real CUSIP and Money doesn't mind.
Is anyone using TD Bank? I am trying to set this up and receiving an error message:
ReplyDelete```
STATUS
CODE 2019
SEVERITY ERROR
MESSAGE Duplicate Request
STATUS
```
When I first tested it, I received a message "MISSING BANK ID" So I copied the "fid" to "bank id" in "sites.dat". Also had to do the security "allow external access" at the bank site. After that, the OFX request went through, but with the STATUS message above.
Sites.dat entry
```
SiteName : TD Bank
AcctType : BASTMT
fiorg : CommerceBank
fid : 1002
url : https://ofx.tdbank.com/eftxweb/td.ofx
bankid : 1002
brokerid :
ofxVer :103
appid : QWIN
appver : 2300
mininterval :
timeOffset :
delay :
skipZeroTrans:
userAgent :
dtacctup :
clientUID :
```
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ron, see TD Banking on my blog page: https://microsoftmoneyoffline.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/cal-learners-review-fidelity-401k-citi-card-and-vanguard-account-info/
DeleteThank you so much! My problem was not knowing the "bankid". It needs to be the routing number for the bank. So with a wrong number in that slot, the query would run, and connect, but return that error message. Once I changed it, it worked fine.
DeleteTrying to download transactions from Fidelity for the past 60 days (Jan & Feb 2023). Here's the dialog:
ReplyDeletePocketSense OFX Download Python Scripts, Ver: 2022-Oct-03
Download transactions? (Y/N/I=Interactive) [Y] i
Download interval (days) [7]: 60
Password:
Download interval= 60 days
FIDELITY : XXXXXXXXXX : Getting records since: 20221031
+Scrubber: Null time values updated.
Searching .\import\ for statements to import
Finished downloading data
Upload online data to Money? (Y/N/V=Verify) [Y]
When I type "Y" only the positions are downloaded not the individual transactions.
Why is the date above "Getting records since: 20221031"
Thank you
Hello AnonymousFebruary 28, 2023
ReplyDeleteI tried to replicate your test but I got ": Getting records since: 20230129"
Here is my sites.dat entry for Fidelity:
<site>
SiteName : FIDELITY
AcctType : INVSTMT
fiorg : fidelity.com
url : https://ofx.fidelity.com:443/ftgw/OFX/clients/download
fid : 7776
bankid :
brokerid : fidelity.com
appid :
appver :
mininterval :
timeOffset: # when I use my own scrubber, this does not matter
</site>
Cal . . . thank you so much for your help. My sites.dat had 120 entered for mininterval. After removing it, all of the transactions were downloaded as intended. Not sure how "Download Interval (days)" and "mininterval" interact.
DeleteRegards
Is anyone having trouble with Fidelity Netbenefits today? I get a message from Money that the file I am attempting to import appears to be invalid or contains corrupt data. No changes from the previous setup, and it LOOKS like the usual file. Is anyone having trouble with Fidelity Netbenefits, or does anyone know of a diagnostic program that can tell what is wrong with the file in something approximating English?
ReplyDeleteWell there is a program called OFXAnalyzer.exe that actually came from Microsoft and actually checked for the "Money acceptable" flavor of OFX. It approaches "English for programmers". Don't know where you'd get an Installer these days. Could try googling.
DeleteSee my blog page: https://microsoftmoneyoffline.wordpress.com/ofx-file-analzer/
DeleteThank you, thank you, thank you! It took a bit of trial and error, but I figured out that for one of my funds, Fidelity was sending a segment that said it would contain a Cusip number, but it then sent a null Cusip number. The parser in Money did not like that. I believe (and would love if someone could tell me if I am right or wrong) that Money does not use Cusip numbers for investments, but instead uses the investment's name as an idenitifier. So I used Notepad to add a Cusip number of AA to the OFX files and viola... the file imported.
DeleteI then spent an hour or so on the phone with Fidelity, and they opened a work order to deal with it.
Money uses "CUSIP Numbers" to match up different parts of the OFX file -- they don't have to be real CUSIP numbers, just some unique Id for matching purposes. One of my brokerages uses some unique internal thing like "B07429" and Money doesn't mind.
DeleteDo you know if Money stores the Cusip number on its main data file? Or does it just match it within an OFX file? I manually put in a dummy (and I WAS consistent) , and it SEEMS to have worked fine. If Money stores it permanently, do you have any idea how one can actually SEE (and update) what it has stored?
DeleteDon't think it stores the CUSIP -- that would screw up if you bought the same stock at different brokerages and some were using fake CUSIPs. Think it mainly keeps track by the ticker symbol.
DeleteLooks like a known issue at Fidelity
Deletehttps://community.quicken.com/discussion/7931095/fidelity-netbenefits-ol-220/p3
Bileci: Than you so much for that link... misery does love company .
DeleteThe Quicken users seem not to get good debugging information, but the dates for which they reported the problem correspond exactly with what I experienced. Our ability to see the OFX files made it easier to figure out what was going on, and apparently the problem only comes up with certain Fidelity funds. Money (and apparently Quicken) parse the entire OFX file before trying to use it, and if it gets a parse error, the software gives up. So if you have one of these bad funds, your entire Fidelity download fails.
There is one Quicken user, Mikeamor, who posted on the first page for this problem on the Quicken forum, and his more-detailed information referenced one of the same segments that I had found to be problematic, so it certainly seems like it is the same problem.
For reference, in case anyone else is having this problem:
The problem fund in my case is "Galliard Stable Val", and the two segments that have a tag name without a value are SECID and SECINFO. The SECID segment appears twice in the download file, and the UNIQUEID tag within that segment does not have a value. The SECINFO segment has a tag, FIID, that does not have a value. (If you are still with me, you'll see that one of the bad SECID segments actually occurs within the SECINFO segment, but that is not directly relevant to this.)
As a temporary fix, I inserted "AA" for the missing values, and the file imported successfully.
If you are having the problem and want to fix the downloaded file, use Notepad to do it. Using Wordpad makes the resulting file unusable by Money.
401(k) accounts often have "odd funds" that aren't available on normal exchanges, your "Galliard Stable Val" (possibly https://markets.businessinsider.com/funds/galliard-stable-return-fund-c-us9499075052 ) looks like one that has no ticker. May not have a CUSIP either. I forget how I handled that when I had a NetBenefits account.
DeleteI think what you said about thoser "odd funds" is correct. So since it used to work just fine when going from Fidelity to Money, I imagine they either left out the problematic segments for those funds or they put in a dummy Cusip number. It's the Money parser that now fails, and that seems to run early-on in the import process.
DeleteHi Harold,
DeleteIn sites.dat there's an optional 's:value' switch that adds a user-defined ticker. It might be worth tinkering with if you haven't done so already.
-Kevin N.
Thanks, Kevin. I went back to the 2011 messages, and looked at the functionality for that. It seems to be related to Yahoo quotes (presumably later updated to Google quotes)? It also seems related to ticker symbols, while the problem I am having is related to Cusip numbers. I want to make sure that I don't mess up my Money file, so do you know anywhere where there is information on what this does?
DeleteThis problem was fixed (by Fidelity) this morning.
DeleteHi Harold,
ReplyDeleteYes, the 's:value' switch is ticker-related rather than Cusip. The following is what I have in sites.dat pertaining to 's:value'. (I removed the #'s and < >'s, I hope this publishes properly).
Options: m:value : define a currency multipler for the quote (examples: m:100, m:0.01)
s:value : user defined symbol to send to Money (rather than Yahoo ticker symbol)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stocks
BP.L m:0.01 s:BP BP @ London stock exchange (quote = pennies)
m:0.01 = multiply quote by 0.01 (convert from pennies to pounds *example*).
s:BP = Send symbol BP to Money, rather than BP.L
Thanks. Since the problem seems to deal with Cusip numbers, I think that at this point I will work with my (tedious) manual workaround and wait for Fidelity to fix the problem. I did just post a message on the Quicken forum giving the details of the problem as I see it, and perhaps that will get forwarded to the appropriate people at Quicken. OTOH, I can't imagine that the Fidelity people couldn't figure out the problem as soon as they started getting reports of it.
DeleteHello ! Like two day ago i started getting an error "invalid quote response. Skipping..." just for one mutual fund(VCPIX) . Everything else still working fine - i have list of like 12 funds. What should be I looking for ?
ReplyDeleteTry opening the OFX file with Wordpad or Notepad. Do a "find" on VCPIX or whatever else identifies the fund (its name, for example). Then look at the supplied data for it for something that seems wrong (say, an alpha in a field that is obviously supposed to contain only numerics). You can also download the OFX Analyzer program and run it against the OFX file and see if it tells you anything.
DeleteHi Arkady,
DeleteIt may be just a hiccup at Yahoo Finance in providing the quote.
Agree w/ Kevin. Tested just now and worked fine for VCPIX. Only ? would be to verify that you're using the latest script pkg and/or haven't redefined the Yahoo Finance quote url in sites.dat.
DeleteThanks everybody ! 1. Harod , what OFX file we talking about named ofx.py or .ofx ? 2. Kevin, Robert , this are few lines from output that i have : Y: VWESX 8.07 3/17/2023 07:01PM 0.88%
Delete** VCPIX : invalid quote response. Skipping...
Y: FRIFX 11.2 3/17/2023 07:01PM -0.53% , so no hiccup or wrong link , right ?
Verify that you're using the latest scripts and that the user-defined YahooURL setting is *not* enabled in sites.dat.
DeleteRobert , i tried and now nothing is working :-) When i click on Getdata, it flashed black window and nothing . Same when i click on Setup. - no dialog window
DeleteArkady.... My mistake. I thought your VCPI issue was related to Fidelity, but I realized in reading the rest of the conversation that it was a separate issue. So just ignore what I wrote....
DeleteRead step 2 of install instructions, and verify that you installed the REQUESTS pkg.
ReplyDeleteI tried : C:\Python27>pip install requests
ReplyDeleteDownloading/unpacking requests
Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement requests
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for requests
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Arkady\pip\pip.log
Python distribution and version?
ReplyDeleteActivePython 2.7.8.10 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
ReplyDeletePython 2.7.8 (default, Jul 2 2014
Ouch. Definitely need latest Python 2.7. ActiveState distro should include REQUESTS by default.
DeleteSo we are out of any ideas ?
ReplyDeleteYou need to update to Python 2.7.18. If you use the ActiveState or Anaconda distro, those should include REQUESTS by default. If you use python.org, then add the "pip install" step.
DeleteHarold:
ReplyDelete1. HaroldMarch 10, 2023 at 2:47 PM said:
"The problem fund in my case is "Galliard Stable Val", and the two segments that have a tag name without a value are SECID and SECINFO. The SECID segment appears twice in the download file, and the UNIQUEID tag within that segment does not have a value. The SECINFO segment has a tag, FIID, that does not have a value. (If you are still with me, you'll see that one of the bad SECID segments actually occurs within the SECINFO segment, but that is not directly relevant to this.)"
Since your problem is with the OFX file from Fidelity, special additional scrubber file could make the change. You would want to post the section that is wrong, and what you would like it to look like after scrubbing. I might get motivated one day, or somebody else might. I have been working on some other stuff, and I am slow.
Note that this blog software eats > , and maybe < characters. So before you post change those each to < and to > strings, respectively.
2. Arkady:
Robert March 17, 2023 at 9:06 PM said:
"Agree w/ Kevin. Tested just now and worked fine for VCPIX. Only ? would be to verify that you're using the latest script pkg and/or haven't redefined the Yahoo Finance quote url in sites.dat."
In order to see what version of PocketSense software you are using, you can run setup.py, and note the sign-on header.
3. Anonymous-- all of you: I understand not wanting to have a login, but consider putting a name in your post, so that we might connect your posts in case one builds on the other.
Thanks so much for the offer, Cal. The problem was fixed by Fidelity this morning. Now if we just get Chase to download OFX files in bulk!
DeleteI don't know if anyone else experiences this issue and, if so, if they figured out how to fix it. Like everyone else I now have to download individual OFX or QFX files from various financial institutions since Chase, Bank of America, etc. no longer work with PocketSense. About half the time the OFX/QFX file processes immediately when I import it into Money. The other times I get a spinning blue circle in Money that goes on for about 3 or 4 minutes before it's finally processed. If I want to work on something unrelated on my laptop while it processes I have to hit the Windows key and I get the message in Money that the program isn't responding and do I want to wait or close it. More than anything it's incredibly annoying as the OFX/QFX file continues processing while I'm off doing other things. But I have no idea why some OFX and QFX files process immediately and others seem to take forever. Any ideas? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI don't experience delays. My only thought is to verify it's only downloading recent transactions?
DeleteThanks, but that's not the issue. The OFX/QFX files are for the current statement period and, at most, have 10 or 20 simple transactions. Usually they only have 2 to 5.
DeleteKen: I think the database compacts itself periodically, but 3 minutes seems long. I do notice some significant differences in time. Are accounts with a lot of transactions taking longer than others, or is that new account as likely to give the delay? I think you are saying that there is no pattern, so the automatic compaction, or whatever it is called, would be my best guess.
ReplyDeletePepperfox comments:
Mint, Pepperfox, plus features of many Fis that consolidate your financial info bother me. I find the “privacy policies” to be rather misleading, since I interpret them as saying they only share information with their partners/friends. I expect you can be their friend for a fee.
Services like Mint exist to use your financial info and provide results to others. The fact that they want your login information is potentially worrisome, but I think Intuit is not going to be trying to pilfer your money. Will they accidentally leak/get hacked? I don’t know.
Some people are not concerned about this and think my view is paranoid or futile. I have heard “My life is an open book” and the thought that “They already know all of your info, so why bother?”. What I like about Microsoft Money, vs the online services, is they keep my info on my computer.
I found this recent article to be interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/11/tax-prep-turbotax-privacy/
Has anyone noticed the Quotes option failing? It worked yesterday 4/17 but today all my stock symbols fail with
ReplyDelete** XXXX : invalid quote response. Skipping...
I wonder if Yahoo have done something which is messing Pocketsense up?
Yes, same here.
DeleteMe too. This doesn't bode well for us.
DeleteWorking again. Phew!
Deleteyahoo is returning "{"finance":{"result":null,"error":{"code":"Unauthorized","description":"Invalid Crumb"}}}" in response to the query Pocketsense is sending.
ReplyDeleteSame here. Was spotty with downloading quotes yesterday and today wont' work at all. Wonder if Yahoo is shutting down that old API or quotes server.
DeleteI have same issue. Downloading quotes is no longer working.
ReplyDeleteIf online quote downloads from yahoo is permanently broken, as an alternative I would take an option to manually enter quotes into a CSV file and a python script to import those quotes into Money. It would be a lot better than manually inputting quotes into the Money GUI.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to use Google Finance instead? I see a parameter "EnableGoogleFinance" in sites.dat
ReplyDeleteWell... I was a bit slow looking at the quotes issue, but just as well. It's working now, or should say working for me... so maybe a site outage?
ReplyDeleteYou could be right. Working again for me now
DeleteBack online for me again too! Hopefully was just a site outage. Always worry about "free" APIs and tons of articles encouraging individuals to download financial data including crypto data from Yahoo. So very much appreciate your Python scripts every day the market is open! Thanks again for your support of this community
DeleteI'm sorry to say it's broken again and now I see quite a plethora of stuff coming back from yahoo against the query being sent.
DeleteStill working for me as of 5:38 EDT US
DeleteAgreed. It works. Since I still have it on my screen here's what came back from a query about AAPL earlier:
Delete{"quoteResponse":{"result":[{"language":"en-US","region":"US","quoteType":"EQUITY","typeDisp":"Equity","quoteSourceName":"Nasdaq Real Time Price","triggerable":true,"customPriceAlertConfidence":"HIGH","currency":"USD","postMarketChangePercent":-0.012122332,"postMarketTime":1682111267,"postMarketPrice":165.0,"postMarketChange":-0.020004272,"regularMarketChange":-1.6299896,"regularMarketTime":1682107204,"regularMarketDayHigh":166.45,"regularMarketDayRange":"164.5 - 166.45","regularMarketDayLow":164.5,"regularMarketVolume":56768497,"regularMarketPreviousClose":166.65,"bid":0.0,"ask":0.0,"bidSize":10,"askSize":18,"fullExchangeName":"NasdaqGS","financialCurrency":"USD","regularMarketOpen":165.05,"averageDailyVolume3Month":63724377,"averageDailyVolume10Day":50018940,"fiftyTwoWeekLowChange":40.850006,"fiftyTwoWeekLowChangePercent":0.3289845,"fiftyTwoWeekRange":"124.17 - 176.15","fiftyTwoWeekHighChange":-11.12999,"fiftyTwoWeekHighChangePercent":-0.06318473,"fiftyTwoWeekLow":124.17,"fiftyTwoWeekHigh":176.15,"dividendDate":1676505600,"earningsTimestamp":1683230400,"earningsTimestampStart":1683230400,"earningsTimestampEnd":1683230400,"trailingAnnualDividendRate":0.91,"trailingPE":28.064627,"trailingAnnualDividendYield":0.0054605464,"messageBoardId":"finmb_24937","exchangeTimezoneName":"America/New_York","exchangeTimezoneShortName":"EDT","gmtOffSetMilliseconds":-14400000,"esgPopulated":false,"regularMarketChangePercent":-0.97809166,"regularMarketPrice":165.02,"firstTradeDateMilliseconds":345479400000,"priceHint":2,"marketState":"POST","exchange":"NMS","shortName":"Apple Inc.","longName":"Apple Inc.","market":"us_market","twoHundredDayAverageChange":14.740952,"twoHundredDayAverageChangePercent":0.09809053,"marketCap":2610929860608,"forwardPE":25.00303,"priceToBook":46.0821,"sourceInterval":15,"exchangeDataDelayedBy":0,"averageAnalystRating":"2.0 - Buy","tradeable":false,"cryptoTradeable":false,"epsTrailingTwelveMonths":5.88,"epsForward":6.6,"epsCurrentYear":5.95,"priceEpsCurrentYear":27.734455,"sharesOutstanding":15821899776,"bookValue":3.581,"fiftyDayAverage":156.3072,"fiftyDayAverageChange":8.712799,"fiftyDayAverageChangePercent":0.055741508,"twoHundredDayAverage":150.27905,"displayName":"Apple","symbol":"AAPL"}],"error":null}}
With Yahoo outages/irregularities becoming more frequent and in the event that Yahoo should drop support for quoting stock prices altogether, there is a free app available called hleofxquotes that can create an OFX file of price quotes.
ReplyDeleteThe developer recently added CSV file capabilities to hleofxquotes. So that a formatted CSV file of price quotes can be converted into an OFX file for importing into MS Money.
The app requires JDK 11 or higher. A simple mapper.csv file should be created to distinguish between Stock and Mutual Fund holdings. To do so create a two column CSV with Symbol and Type columns. Symbol is for the Ticker; Type is simply M for Mutual Funds and S for Stock. The mapper.csv file must reside in the same directory as the hleofxquotes jar file.
You can download hleOfxQuotes-gui-Build-20230429_312.zip from the developers Bitbucket site here:
https://bitbucket.org/hleofxquotesteam/hleofxquotes-test/downloads/
There are sample CSV files there to examine for formatting along with a sample mapper.csv file.
The developer has added a second Yahoo source to hleOfxQuotes-gui-Build 314.zip available here: https://bitbucket.org/hleofxquotesteam/hleofxquotes/downloads/
DeleteFound an article talking about yahoo finance api, I tested manually, it works. we need to modify the scipts to get the stock prices. https://cryptocointracker.com/yahoo-finance/yahoo-finance-api
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointer. I did try using the default Yahoo Finance URL:
Deletehttps://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote?symbols=GOOG,AAPL
and got "Invalid","Unauthorized Cookie"
Per StackOverflow, there is a workaround, by using older API:
https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote?symbols=GOOG,AAPL
, which retruns correct data.
Addint param to sites.dat:
YahooURL: http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote
got me going. At least for now...
Here is the StackOverflow source:
Deletehttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/76059562/yahoo-finance-api-get-quotes-returns-invalid-cookie
yes. I just tested V7 not working but V6 works, for reference, just change the value of self.YahooURL in site_cfg.py to http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote, or adding parameter to sites dat as mentioned above.
DeleteThank you! Confirmed that v6 worked. For example: https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote?symbols=MSFT
DeleteIn case Yahoo stops serving the quotes, I made quotes work with Google Sheet. It requires setting up a Google Sheet with tickers, names, price, date, and time, similar to what the Yahoo API returns. Then a HTTP GET request to the Google Sheet grabs all the data in CSV.
ReplyDeletehttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/33713084/download-link-for-google-spreadsheets-csv-export-with-multiple-sheets
Thanks for the tip - my end of day routine is now working flawlessly (again)! At least until the next tweak in Yahoo API.
DeleteI too have been pondering the crossroad. My history in money is complicated with many closed accounts that have transactions related to open accounts, etc. It occurred to me, the easiest path when/if the moment arrives, will be (hopefully) just to keep money for reference/history when needed. Then start new with something that seems to be hooked into current/approved technology (moneydance, quicken, etc).
ReplyDeleteNow I have to try and fix yahoo quotes as per above (he he).
I uncommented and changed the YahooURL: http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote in sites.dat to get working again. Thank you so much for the quick fix. So very much appreciate this community of people!!!
ReplyDeleteI can confirm the slight edit in site_cfg.py suggested above by >Anonymous May 5, 2023 at 9:30 PM< worked for me. I hadn't noticed any problems until yesterday morning (I run Psense 1/wk). I did notice that some stock prices were updated even though every inquiry produced an error comment while the connection was running. I found this when I went to manually update the prices in Money. No rhyme or reason I could see, but about half were already updated. It took me a bit to figure out how to open the site_cfg.py file for editing. For those with similar (limited!) exposure to this level of modding, here's what I did:
ReplyDelete- opened a administrator command prompt,
- navigate to the directory that holds Pocketsense (cd\users\"you"\documents\folder with Psense)
- at end of this line type "notepad site_cfg.py" (without quotes of course)
- scroll down about a 1/4 of the way to the line "self.YahooURL = 'http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote'" change the V7 to a v6,
- close notepad (saving changes of course)
- exit command prompt and Pocketsense will hopefully run with no errors downloading quotes
This worked for me.
Thanks so much, Joryde. Your instructions worked perfectly!
DeleteThank you. I wished that I found your instructions earlier (it didn't occur to me to look at the "comment" to the host's post. I spent two days creating an Excel sheet to download quotes and then creating an Excel template to get the results formated into an OFX file. Not known any thing about OFX, it took me a lot of trial and error (3 days).
DeleteMy Excel file, GetStockPricesMulitFunds.xlsx, can be retrieved by FTP, Host: ftp.david-swinehart.com Username: anonymous@david-swinehart.com Port: 21 there is no password. Be sure to scan for viruses as I'm not sure as how secure my ftp site is!
Keep getting invalid quote response. Skipping. Tried redoing sites.dat but still won’t get quotes. Help!
ReplyDeleteDid you change the file: site_cfg.py, line: self.YahooURL = 'http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote' to self.YahooURL = 'http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote'
DeleteThat is change the 7 to 6 in that line?
That worked for me. I just verified that it is still working.
Thank you ! Works great now
DeleteI also was having problems and changing the Yahoo URL to v6 solved it... Thanks for the tip!
DeleteGot the administrator command prompt and assume you do not use quotation marks but can’t get the path to open up
ReplyDeleteRobert: I too have been having problems with the stock price query. I have been using a stock/bond query for many years, but haven't gotten a good download since May 3rd. My prior query was based on an old PS release and old Python 2.7 release. When looking at the release notes I thought I should update to the latest release and upgrade Python to 2.7.18 as well. I was able to negotiate the requests install as well. When all was said and done, the download of stock and bond prices was just as broken as before. I even made sure my sites.dat file was modeled after the latest sites.template. After reading through the comments regarding the proper Yahoo url specifications am I to infer that you will publish a new release or is there something I need to do in my sites.dat file that mitigates the existing problem?
ReplyDeleteChange this line in sites.dat:
Delete#YahooURL: http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v7/finance/quote
to:
YahooURL: http://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote
Robert: Yes that change has completely solved the problem. Thank you
DeleteAccess to my USAA bank and credit card accounts stopped working yesterday. The OFX response file had only the following information:
ReplyDelete<STATUS>
<CODE>2000
<SEVERITY>ERROR
</STATUS>
Apparently my OFX login credentials had expired. If this happens to you, go to the following link (which requires you to login with your online credentials) to reset your OFX login permissions:
https://df3cx-services.1fsapi.com/casm/usaa/enroll
Cheers, David
I realize that the URL above seems to have nothing to do with USAA. However, it immediately redirects you to USAA at web page titled "Allow Quicken Direct Connect to access your USAA information?"
Deletevia a URL similar to this:
https://www.usaa.com/inet/ent_oauth_consent/authorize?1&client_id=[deleted_info]&redirect_uri=https://df3cx-services.1fsapi.com/casm/usaa/connect&scope=usaa.profile.member.read+usaa.bank.aggregation.read&response_type=code&code_challenge=my_challenge&state=my_state&code_challenge_method=plain&session_id=[deleted_info]
Cheers, David
Is there a way with this program to download dividend yield into MS money?
ReplyDeleteAnd once again Yahoo is not co-operating
ReplyDeletehttp://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v6/finance/quote?symbols=ARKK
gets back
{"finance":{"result":null,"error":{"code":"Not Found","description":"HTTP 404 Not Found"}}}
I'm getting the same error the last time Yahoo acted up of "invalid quote response. skipping"
ReplyDeleteI changed back to v7 but got the same error message.
Same here unfortunately
DeleteYup, same here.
DeleteMe too.
DeleteTry 'https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/ARKK?lang=en-US®ion=US&modules=price'
DeleteOr with more "stuff": 'https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v10/finance/quoteSummary/ARKK?formatted=true&lang=en-US®ion=US&modules=price%2CsummaryDetail%2CpageViews'
DeleteAppreciate the link. I'll update the scripts ~ soon to use the v10 service. Actually... need to refactor the quote section and remove the old (csv oriented) parsing, which is a holdover from early days. Made sense at the time, but no longer.
DeleteSo what do we put in sites.dat now?
DeleteI appreciate all of the community efforts to keep PocketSense going. I also had the error with my USAA accounts but visiting the link inside the ofx file and following the prompts renewed my access. I did not have to update my username and password within PocketSense.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to the updated stock quote retrieval. Please let us know when it is available.