I got your follow-up email at home rather than in this thread. It seems like it may just be a one-char fix I need to fix:
edd@max:~/git/finance-yahooquote(master)$ diff -u YahooQuote.pm /usr/share/perl5/Finance/YahooQuote.pm --- YahooQuote.pm 2015-05-10 11:17:48.927669722 -0500 +++ /usr/share/perl5/Finance/YahooQuote.pm 2015-04-29 07:02:25.000000000 -0500 @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ $VERSION = '0.25'; ## these variables govern what type of quote the modules is retrieving +$QURLbase = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csvr?e=.csv&f="; $QURLbase = "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?e=.csv&f="; $QURLformat = "snl1d1t1c1p2va2bapomwerr1dyj1x"; # default up to 0.19 $QURLextended = "s7t8e7e8e9r6r7r5b4p6p5j4m3m4"; # new in 0.20 edd@max:~/git/finance-yahooquote(master)$ ie try if changing 'quotes.csvr?' to 'quotes.csv?' in the file /usr/share/perl5/Finance/YahooQuote.pm helps. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org