GnuCash get quotes on stock price from the internet

Question

I have followed the instructions here, using the exact example, to have automatic stock price updates in GnuCash. When I click price editor -> Get Quotes it returns in a warning Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: NS:HDIL.NS (also there is another one I tried too).

I installed gnc-fq-update following the instructions on the GnuCash mailing list here. And when I type into the terminal cpan -D Finance::Quote as instructed to do so in the GnuCash wiki for CPAN the terminal returns

Going to read '/home/anthony/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 14 May 2014 02:06:11 GMT
Finance::Quote
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    (no description)
    E/EC/ECOCODE/Finance-Quote-1.31.tar.gz
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Finance/Quote.pm
    Installed: 1.31
    CPAN:      1.31  up to date
    Erik Colson (ECOCODE)
    eco@ecocode.net

Answer 1

The problem was with the particular stock HDIL.NS I was trying to retrieve. Opening up a terminal and trying some of the commands listed in the GNUcash CPAN wiki here showed that my installation is fine. For example in terminal to find amazon share price using yahoo works great

$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo AMZN
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: AMZN                 <=== required
      date: 05/19/2014           <=== required
  currency: USD                  <=== required
      last: 296.755              <=\       
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price: 296.755              <=/        
  timezone:                      <=== optional

Which is all OK. But the same for HDIL.NS and it can't find it (at least using yahoo)

$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo HDIL.NS
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: HDIL.NS              <=== required
      date: ** missing **        <=== required
  currency: ** missing **        <=== required
      last: 0.00                 <=\       
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price:                      <=/        
  timezone:                      <=== optional

** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!

Using an alternative to yahoo may resolve the issue the command gnc-fq-check shows alternatives to yahoo (I haven't bothered to check and find one)

$ gnc-fq-check
("1.31" "cse" "india" "vwd" "yahoo_nz" "ukfunds" "australia" "amfiindia" "usfedbonds" "bitcoin_gbp" "canada" "yahoo" "bitcoin_aud" "adig" "bux" "bitcoin_eur" "aiahk" "mtgox_sek" "bsero" "mtgox_hkd" "bitcoin_pln" "yahoo_australia" "unionfunds" "lerevenu" "asia" "tsx" "sixfunds" "indiamutual" "bse" "bitcoin_nzd" "hungary" "mtgox_gbp" "known_currencies" "mtgox_chf" "tnetuk" "fidelity_direct" "goldmoney" "tdwaterhouse" "trustnet" "mtgox_thb" "ftportfolios_direct" "cominvest" "morningstar" "ftportfolios" "mtgox_usd" "ind" "tdefunds" "bitcoin_rub" "bitcoin_nok" "mstaruk" "hu" "za" "bitcoin_usd" "mtgox_eur" "fundlibrary" "stockhousecanada_fund" "mtgox_pln" "yahoo_europe" "mtgox_sgd" "platinum" "mtgox_nok" "bitcoin_hkd" "maninv" "tsp" "financecanada" "usa" "troweprice" "france" "nasdaq" "bmonesbittburns" "bitcoin_thb" "mtgox_cny" "yahoo_asia" "mtgox_cad" "troweprice_direct" "tiaacref" "seb_funds" "bitcoin_jpy" "bitcoin_cny" "mtgox_aud" "ftfunds" "yahoo_brasil" "greece" "fidelity" "mtgox_nzd" "fetch_live_currencies" "romania" "dwsfunds" "finland" "hex" "brasil" "asegr" "deka" "nyse" "canadamutual" "asx" "mtgox_jpy" "mtgox_rub" "yahoo_json" "finanzpartner" "za_unittrusts" "fool" "citywire" "bitcoin_sek" "bitcoin_sgd" "uk_unit_trusts" "dutch" "sixshares" "nzx" "bitcoin_cad" "bitcoin_dkk" "aex" "nz" "bitcoin_chf" "vanguard" "europe" "bourso" "morningstarjp" "mtgox_dkk")