New Problems downloading Investments

[skeetly]

Submitted a ticket. Followed suggestion of using FT which appears to be working.
Any clue as to why this task needs an upate so often?

[RLebeau]

IIRC, it is because AceMoney grabs investment/exchange prices by scraping them from HTML pages on financial websites, which change their HTML formatting over time. Why AceMoney can't use financial APIs that provide data in a consistent format that is meant for parsing by software, I don't know.

[skeetly]

IIRC, it is because AceMoney grabs investment/exchange prices by scraping them from HTML pages on financial websites, which change their HTML formatting over time. Why AceMoney can't use financial APIs that provide data in a consistent format that is meant for parsing by software, I don't know.

Thanks.

[skeetly]

Looks like the problems back for me. Anyone else suffering?

[RLebeau]

Looks like the problems back for me. Anyone else suffering?

Yes.

[shaam12]

same problem for me. is it worth opening a ticket

[davidxtaylor]

Same here - cannot get a price from any of the sources.

[RLebeau]

same problem for me. is it worth opening a ticket

Tickets already exist, but it can't hurt to open more. It would help to show MechCAD just how much people are suffering from this issue.

[davidxtaylor]

For a few days, most of my investments have updated, but randomly some do not (from same data source as working ones, codes triple-checked, still did not work). For a few days currencies were updated. Thought things were improving...

But this morning, no investment updates and currencies do not update.

[davidxtaylor]

Slight change today - some investments that previously showed 'Failed (click to see why)' now show 0.0000. But most still show Failed.
Currencies working again

Is it just me or are others getting downloads at present? If so from which source?