Changes for version 1.21 - 2014-03-02 (TRIAL RELEASE)

  • ASX.pm now supports querying more than 10 symbols (goodvibes2)
  • Travis config added for automated test build
  • BUILD: Updated to use Dist::Zilla
  • 2014-02-17 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • INSTALLATION FIX: Install Date::Calc as dependency
  • 2014-02-16 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • MtGox support added by Sam Morris
    • MorningstarJP support added by Christopher Hill
    • Yahoo modules changed due to site change
  • 2010-02-16 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • TSP.pm updated. Patch from Kevin Ryde.
    • YAHOO/Base.pm added conversion from 'B' billions to numbers. Patch from Kevin Ryde.
    • Billions support moved to Quote.pm
  • 2009-10-05 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Lots of tests added
  • 2009-10-04 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • IndiaMutual.t tests added
    • Yahoo_europe: Bug 44245 solved. Wrong fields returned.
    • Documentation: Bug 48818 corrected.
  • 2009-10-03 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • yahoo_europe.t tests corrected
  • 2009-09-30 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Bourso.t tests corrected
  • 2009-09-29 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • AEX.pm removed code for options and futures. (didn't work)
  • 2009-07-19 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Bug in Yahoo::Base corrected. Sometimes year range is wrongly returned.
  • 2009-07-19 Giles Robertson
    • Bug in Yahoo::Base corrected. GBp wrongly interpreted.
  • 2009-07-19 Stephan Ebelt
    • Goldmoney.pm patched. support for platinum added.
  • 2009-07-18 Zoltan Levardy <zoltan@levardy.org>
    • New module HU.pm (Hungarian stocks)
  • 2009-06-14 Divakar Ramachandran
    • Bug RT 46155 solved by modifying link in IndiaMutual.pm
  • 2009-06-14 Stephan Ebelt
    • Cominvest URL modified
  • 2009-06-14 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • currencies adapted to yahoo denomination
  • 2009-06-13 Sattvik
    • currency retrieval updated (yahoo website changed)
  • 2009-04-27 Bradley Dean <bjdean@bjdean.id.au>
    • ASX.pm updated due to website change
  • 2009-04-13 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Release 1.16
  • 2009-04-12 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUGFIX: Bourso.pm allmost completely rewritten due to website change.
    • BUGFIX: Morningstar.pm patched by Fredrik Persson.
    • BUGFIX: AEX.pm patched by Herman van Rink.
  • 2009-03-19 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUGFIX: 12:XXpm formatted time handling.
  • 2009-03-04 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • RENAMED ITE is now RZR
  • 2009-03-02 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUGFIX: ZA.pm patched.
  • 2009-03-01 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUGFIX: Stephen Ebelt patch applied for goldmoney.pm
    • BUGFIX: Encoding problem solved by Ashwin
  • 2009-02-16 Bradley Dean <bjdean@bjdean.id.au>
    • NEW: Function fetch_live_currencies.
  • 2009-02-15 Bradley Dean <bjdean@bjdean.id.au>
    • NEW: Module Finance::Quote::Currencies created for use in currency_lookup.
  • 2008-12-05 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Finanzpartner module adapted to site updated. By Jan Wilamowius.
    • Morningstar patched by Fredrik Persson.
  • 2008-11-09 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Bourso.pm updated due to website update. By Bernard Fuentes
  • 2008-10-26 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUG correction : IndiaMutual.pm: symbol not set it module.
    • Release 1.15
  • 2008-10-21 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • BUG correction : function isoTime - make sure $hours and $mins are treated as numbers
    • use sprintf in isoTime
  • 2008-10-15 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Release 1.14
  • 2008-10-13 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Finanzpartner.pm added by Jan Willamowius
  • 2008-10-12 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • isoTime function added
    • added quote.t
    • yahoo time is now format using isoTime
  • 2008-10-11 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • added prerequisite for HTML::TreeBuilder
    • union.t from todo
  • 2008-10-10 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • TEST: Ensure Data::Dumper is not accidently left in F::Q code.
  • 2008-10-07 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Root README added
    • BUGFIX: asx.t
  • 2008-10-05 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Added Cominvest module from Stephan Ebelt
  • 2008-10-04 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Failing tests moved to todo-state for trustnet, usfedbonds, bourso, deka, union
    • BUGFIX: currency.t
    • BUGFIX: lerevenu.t - index ID corrected
  • 2008-10-02 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • Failing tests moved to todo-state for ftportfolios, aiahk, nzx, maninvestments.
  • 2008-09-30 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • BUGFIX: Applied patch from Bill Carlson to fix Tiaacref.pm. Thanks Bill, you rock!
  • 2008-09-28 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • StockHouseCanada.pm updated to new site layout
    • DWS.pm updated
  • 2008-09-27 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • VWD.pm updated to new site layout
    • TSX.pm added
  • 2008-09-27 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • DOCUMENTATION: Fixed malformed formatting in authors email addresses in Fiannce/Quote.pm.
  • 2008-09-26 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • AEX.pm updated to new site layout (comma used in numbers)
  • 2008-09-22 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • BUILD: Module::Install 0.77 is now used for building and installation. (PJF)
    • TESTING: Finance::Quote's test system has been restructured. Tests are now run during installation, but online and author tests are skipped by default. (PJF)
  • 2008-09-21 Erik Colson <eco@ecocode.net>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Brasil.pm: Enable semicolon.
  • 2007-05-13 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/SEB.pm: Patch from Henrik Riomar <henrik.riomar at gmail.com> to fix a problem finding quotes for funds with the Swedish chars åäö in the name.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/IndiaMutual.pm: Patch from Devendra Gera <gera0ul at yahoo.com> to remove white space when splitting the results in the AMFI data file.
  • 2007-01-07 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_13
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Update version to 1.13.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Update the store_date() function for the case when the year isn't explicitly stated. If the specified month would put the quote in the future, then consider this a quite from last year. manly intended to handle the rollover from December to January on web sites that don't specify the year. Suggestion from Christian Lupien.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/BMONesbittBurns.pm: Enhance module to support mutual fund quotes (which have less data than stock quotes). Correct date format parsing. Fix from Christian Lupien <lupien at users.sourceforge.net>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/StockHouseCanada.pm: The fund name seems to be a moving target. Search all tables of depth one looking for it.
  • 2007-01-01 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/FTPortfolios.pm: Rewrite this module for the new web site design.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/TSP.pm: Strip spaces around the dollar values.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/FinanceCanada.pm: Rewrite this module for the new web site design.
    • test/*.t: Some restructuring of tests. Add a couple more tests on dates. Replace a couple of test stocks that are no longer valid.
    • test/*.t: Accept last year as a valid date. Comes in hand when testing modules at the start of the new year.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ZA.pm: Update for changes in the display of the web site.
  • 2006-12-31 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/StockHouseCanada.pm:
    • test/stockhousecanada.t: New module for getting Canadian Mutual fund quotes from Chris Carton <ctcarton@gmail.com>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Deka.pm: Update for changes in the display of the web site. Now uses an https url.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/LeRevenu.pm: Updates from Dominique Corbex for changes in the display of the web site.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Update for changes in the display of the web site.
  • 2006-09-11 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • Move AIA.pm to AIAHK.pm since AIA has sites in multiple countries.
  • 2006-09-10 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/AIA.pm:
    • test/aia.pm: New module to access American International Assurance fund information. Based on perl script from Wouter van Marle <wouter@squirrel-systems.com>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Bourso.pm: Update the URL to track changes on the web site.
  • 2006-07-10 David Hampton <hampton@cisco.com>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Update version to 1.12.
    • CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_12
  • 2006-06-27 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • Makefile.PL: State the dependency on Crypt::SSLeay that several modules now have.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Don't set fields that are defined but are empty..
    • test/yahoo_brasil.t: Update the test module to have more cases and use better stocks.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Brasil.pm: Update for the change of the data separator from a semicolon to a comma.
    • test/financecanada.t:
    • test/hex.t: Add new test cases to cover the last untested modules. All modules are now tested.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/FinanceCanada.pm: Don't set the success flag if the lookup failed.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Platinum.pm: Use the new url of the pricing information.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ManInvestments.pm: Update for the new table format on the web site.
    • test/indiamutual.t:
    • test/aex.t: Update the test cases to use currently listed funds.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ManInvestments.pm: The url for updating quotes has changed, as has the table header.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Bourso.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/LeRevenu.pm:
    • test/bourso.t:
    • test/lerevenu.t: Updated modules from Dominique Corbex <domcox@sourceforge.net>. The name field now returns the real name and not ticker symbols, and other small fixes.
  • 2006-04-08 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Work around the fact that gnucash escapes the ampersand character when passing stock names to F::Q.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/DWS.pm: Updated module from Klaus Dahlke <klaus.dahlke@gmx.de> to retrieve quotes from the new DWS web page.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm: Explicitly state in the code that this module requires ssl support (it uses an https:// url). This prevents perl from trying to run the code when ssl support isn't present.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/HEX.pm:
    • test/hex.t: New module from Mika Laari <mikalaari@users.sourceforge.net> to fetch quote information from the Helsinki stock exchange.
    • Documentation/Hackers-Guide: Add a section on the q->store_date() function. All modules should use this function to set the 'date' and 'isodate' fields based on the retrieved textual date (or lack thereof).
    • test/lerevenu.t: Test the right module.
  • 2006-04-07 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/LeRevenu.pm:
    • test/lefrevenu.t: New module from Dominique Corbex <domcox@sourceforge.net> to fetch information from the LeRevenu.com site in France.
    • t/yahoo_europe.t: New test cases for non-GBP London exchange stocks. Use new stock for test of the XETRA exchange. (Can't find a non-Euro stock there, so remove those tests.)
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Patch from p1n0@sourceforge.net to only divide London exchange values by 100 if they are denominated in pence.
  • 2006-04-06 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Bourso.pm:
    • test/bourso.t: New module from Dominique Corbex <domcox@sourceforge.net> to fetch information from the "Paris Stock Exchange", http://www.boursorama.com.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Updated module from Jörg Sommer that is more tolerant of the advertising added to the web page.
  • 2006-01-11 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_11
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Updated $VERSION to 1.01
  • 2006-01-10 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • test/dws.t:
    • test/maninvestments.t:
    • test/yahoo_brasil.t: Accept dates in both the previous and current year as valid responses.
    • test/aex.t: Change test currency to one still on the exchange.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Jörg Sommer's patch to work better with invalid WKNs and to extract the exchange information from its new location.
  • 2005-11-18 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Use the store_date function.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Platinum.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Add code to protect against empty tables, data fields, etc.
    • test/aex.t: Correct the number of test cases. Changed test stock to one that is still on the exchange. Site no longer provides time (date only) so remove tests for time of quote. Futures quotes don't always have bid/ask values so comment out those tests.
    • test/indiamutual.t:
    • test/trustnet.t:
    • test/union.t:
    • test/yahoo.t: Changed test stock to one that is still on the exchange.
    • test/yahoo_brasil.t: All returned prices (for all stocks I tried) return a price of zero, so comment out the test for non-zero.
  • 2005-10-23 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Put back the call to the HTML::TableExtract first_table_state_found() function for now. At some point this should be removed and the 2.0 version of HTML::TableExtract required.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Make note of an alternate yahoo URL that can be used to obtain currency quotes. From Gerry Barksdale <gbark at barksys.com>.
  • 2005-10-22 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm:
    • test/tiaacref.t: Add Support for TIAA-CREF mutual funds from Brandon <brandon2 at users.sourceforge.net>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Remove the thousands separator character from quote values.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/TSP.pm:
    • test/tsp.t: Frank Mori Hess's <fmhess at speakeasy.net> change to add support for the TSP lifecycle L funds.
    • ChangeLog: Archive pre-2005 data into a separate file.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Deka.pm: Add a new module to retrieve German investment fund prices from Deka. Module from Knut Franke <Knut.Franke at gmx.de>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/USFedBonds.pm:
    • test/usfedbonds.t: Add a new US Federal Bonds stock quote module from Stephen Langenhoven <langenhoven at users.sourceforge.net>.
  • 2005-10-21 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Updated to work with new Yahoo currency conversion pages.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm: New URL from Kevin Foss. Uses https, so the Crypt::SSLeay module is now required for TIAA-CREF quotes.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ZI.pm: Zürich Invest has been purchased by Deutsche Bank and integrated into DWS. The DWS.pm module should now be used in place of the ZI.pm module.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Patch from Rainer Dorsch to return the current price as 'last'. The HTML::TableExtract first_table_state_found() function has been deprecated. Accept both the old and new values as correct answers.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ZA.pm:
    • test/za.t: Add a new South African stock quote module from Stephen Langenhoven <langenhoven at users.sourceforge.net>.
  • 2005-08-10 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Handle invalid ISINs better. VWD delivers a 404 error instead of a blank page. Fix suggested by Uwe Simon <uwe.simon.koeln at t-online dot de>
  • 2005-07-04 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Bumped $VERSION to 1.10, primarily to work around a problem with CPAN distributions.
    • CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_10
  • 2005-06-29 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Updated module from Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/cdnfundlibrary.pm: Changes inspired by kalaleq@users.sourceforge.net allow retrieval of more data.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/NZ.pm: New module from Stephen Judd <saniac@users.sourceforge.net>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/NZX.pm: Tweak to allow both NZX and Yahoo:NZ to get quotes for New Zealand Stocks (use method nz).
    • CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_09
  • 2005-05-30 Paul Fenwick <pjf@cpan.org>
    • MANIFEST: Updated with files intended for distribution.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Updated $VERSION to 1.09
    • CVSTAG: Updated finance_quote_1_09 tag on MANIFEST and lib/Finace/Quote.pm
    • Released updated version 1.09 with new MANIFEST and Quote.pm to Sourceforge.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Re-enabled $VERSION and bumped to 1.01 to allow correct indexing on CPAN, however the older version currently remains in the 1.09 release.
  • 2005-05-04 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/FTPortfolios.pm: Update for changes in the website.
    • t/ftportfolios.t: New test module.
    • TSP.pm: Replace core parsing with tighter code. Support the symbols used by both Frank Mori Hess' and Trent Piepho's TSP modules. Make the symbols case insensitive.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm: Find table by headers instead of by index.
    • test/asegr.t: New module
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ASEGR.pm: New module
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm: Skip any blank lines in the table. Pass an extra parameter to TableExtract to keep it from doing unnecessary work that produces warnings.
  • 2005-03-19 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Encode the '&' character before calling the user agent GET function. Fixes bug 747080.
  • 2005-03-19 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • almost all files: Collapsed all date parsing code into a single function. This function handles the date formats provided by all current quote sources and converts them all into the F::Q standard of a US date format. It also adds an ISO format date to all quotes in the new isodate field. Added lots of test functions to check date formats.
  • 2005-03-19 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Spelling correcting from Frank Mori Hess.
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Documentation correction from Trent Piepho.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm (yahoo_request): Fix an undefined reference when Yahoo ocassionally returns an empty field.
  • 2005-03-01 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote.pm: New modules. New function to parse files separated by semicolons instead of commas.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Worked over modules from Johan van Oostrum. Most of the old AEX data has migrated elsewhere.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Got the modules working again.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/ManInvestments.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Platinum.pm: New modules for Australian investment price sources from Ian Dall <iandall at users.sourceforge.net>.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/NZX.pm: New modules for fetching quotes the from the New Zealand stock exchange. Provided by Michael Curtis.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/SEB.pm: New modules for fetching quotes from the Swedish Bank. Submitted by Tomas Carlsson.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/TSP.pm: New modules for fetching quotes from the US Govt. Thrift Service Plan. Submitted by Frank Mori Hess.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Corrected currency tags for Vienna and Valence.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Brasil.pm: Add new Yahoo Brasil module from Ismael Orenstein <perdig at users.sourceforge.net>.
    • t/*: Various new test modules.
  • 2005-02-09 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Fidelity.pm:
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Union.pm: Got the modules working again.
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Extract the currency directly from Yahoo, instead of looking it up in an exchange/currency mapping table.
    • t/*: Various new test and updated modules.
  • 2005-02-06 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/BMONesbittBurns.pm: Got the modules working again.
  • 2005-01-14 David Hampton <hampton@employees.org>
    • lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm: Got the module working again.

Modules

Get stock and mutual fund quotes from various exchanges
Obtain quotes from the Australian Stock Exchange.
Obtain mutual fund prices from www.fundlibrary.com
Obtain information from cominvest, formerly known as Adig Investment.
List of currencies from Yahoo Finance
Obtain quotes from DWS (Deutsche Bank Gruppe).
Obtain fonds quotes from DekaBank.
Obtain unit trust prices from www.ftportfolios.com
Obtain information from Fidelity Investments.
Obtain stock and mutual fund prices from finance.canada.com
Obtain quotes from Finanzpartner.de.
Obtain quotes from the Motley Fool web site.
obtain spot rates from GoldMoney.
Obtain quotes from the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Obtain Hungarian Securities from www.magyartokepiac.hu www.bamosz.hu
Obtain Indian mutual fund prices from amfiindia.com
Obtain quotes from Man Investments Australia.
Obtain fund prices the Fredrik way
Obtain price data from Morningstar (Japan).
Obtain information from Mt.Gox
Obtain quotes from NZX (New Zealand stock exchange.)
Obtain quotes from the Platinum Asset Management.
Obtain fund prices from www.seb.se
Obtain quotes from the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Obtain quotes from TD Waterhouse Efunds
Obtain quotes from TD Waterhouse Canada
Obtain quote from TIAA-CREF.
Obtain quotes from T. Rowe Price
Obtain unit trust prices from trustnet.co.uk
Obtain quotes from UNION (Zurich Financial Services Group).
Obtain quotes from vwd Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste GmbH.
Fetch quotes from Yahoo Asia
Fetch Australian stock quotes via Yahoo.
Common functions for fetching Yahoo info.
Fetch Brasiln stock quotes via Yahoo.
Fetch quotes from Yahoo Europe
Fetch nzn stock quotes via Yahoo.
Obtain information about stocks and funds in the USA and Canada.
Obtain South African stock and prices from www.sharenet.co.za

Provides

in lib/Finance/Quote/SIXfunds.pm
in lib/Finance/Quote/SIXshares.pm
in lib/Finance/Quote/StockHouseCanada.pm
in lib/Finance/Quote/UserAgent.pm