Sorry for the noise. PD said to keep this on R-devel. If this sparks any interest, send replies there.
M On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:44 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
