Moved to r-help. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira <jram...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to write an application to retrieve financial data > (specially bonds data) from FINRA. The web page is served dynamically > from an asp.net application: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx > > I'd like to know if it's possible to fill dynamically the web page > form from R and, after filling it (with the issuer name), retrieve the > web page, parse the data, and covert it to appropiate R objects. > For example, suppose I want to search data for AT&T bonds. I'd like to > know if it's possible, within R, to fill the page served from: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/AdvancedScreener.aspx > > select the "corporate" option and fill with AT&T the field for "Issuer > name", ask the page to display the results, and retrieve the results > for each of the bonds issued by AT&T (for example: > > http://cxa.gtm.idmanagedsolutions.com/finra/BondCenter/BondDetail.aspx?ID=MDAxOTU3Qko3) > > and parsing the data from the web page. > > Thanks in advance. > > ______________________________________________ > r-de...@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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