Financ...Fundata(3pm)

💖 Financ...Fundata(3pm) — or like, Finance::Quote::Fundata bestie 💖

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's all about getting Canadian mutual fund quotes from Fundata. pull up a chair, we're doing finance but make it cute. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Finance::Quote::Fundata — Obtain Canadian mutual fund quotes from Fundata

that's literally it. that's the whole vibe. she fetches, she's Canadian, she's about mutual funds. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you'd actually call her:

use Finance::Quote;

$q = Finance::Quote->new;

%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("fundata","234263");

so you make your Finance::Quote object, and then you fetch with "fundata" as the source and the symbol as a string. in this example the symbol is "234263". yes bestie, as a string, we'll get to why. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the tea: this module fetches mutual fund information from Fundata. mutual fund info, from Fundata. that's the assignment and she ate. 🔥

now here's the thing you actually need to know — the mutual fund symbols on the site are specified numerically. numbers. digits. not cute little ticker letters. 😭

so how do you figure out which number is your fund? the manual says the best way is to:

1. navigate to the site 🌐
2. search for the relevant mutual fund 🔍
3. note the "IID=#####" which appears in the URL 👀

that IID=##### is your girl. that's the number you feed in. iykyk. ✨

and then — and this is the part where she's being considerate, which we love — in order to not tax the provider with too many requests, by default the module limits requests to 3 every 10 seconds. three. per ten seconds. she's pacing herself. she's not gonna spam Fundata. she's respectful. we stan a polite module. 🫶

fr fr, if you're sitting there hammering it and wondering why things are slow — it's not broken, it's throttled, and it's throttled on purpose.

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🎀 LABELS RETURNED 🎀

the following labels may be returned by Finance::Quote::Fundata:

• symbol
• name
• method
• source
• timezone
• isodate
• nav
• currency

that's the whole roster bestie, all eight of them, no more no less. 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

lowkey iconic behaviour: this section is just... here. sitting pretty. nothing listed under it. she showed up to the party with an empty guest list and honestly? respect. 💀

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okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up, go get those mutual fund quotes 🧚

and for the record — this doc is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2024-01-01, brought to you by the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. 💖 bye bestie, slay responsibly 💅✨