Many thanks Ista. I will try other routes as well. Thanks Jeff and sorry for posting without abiding by the rules. Thanks James. I would rather automate this than download manually everytime. That is my intent.
Best Balaji On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not an R question, but see > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/ for an easy way > to see what what is going on under the hood when you download using > firefox. For your example I get > > wget --header='Host: www.nseindia.com' --header='User-Agent: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0' > --header='Accept: > text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' > --header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Connection: > keep-alive' ' > http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip > ' > -O 'fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip' -c > > Now you just need to translate that to R. (Or not, sometimes its > easier to just shell out (using e.g., 'system()' ) and download with > wget or curl). > > Best, > Ista > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Electron Musketeer > <muskete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Experts > > > > I am new to this forum and to R and was trying the following to access a > > zip file from the webpages of the NSE. Here is my code. > > > > temp <- tempfile() > > download.file(" > > > http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip > > ",temp) > > con <- unz(temp, "a1.dat") > > data <- matrix(scan(con),ncol=4,byrow=TRUE) > > unlink(temp) > > > > > > The result is: > > cannot open URL ' > > > http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip > > ' > > In addition: Warning message: > > In download.file(" > > > http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip > ", > > : > > cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' > > > > > > I tried accessing this file directly from the website and it is letting > me > > access it. My question is why is it not letting me download from R? I > have > > gone through some websites to see if this has been resolved but the older > > resolutions also do not work. Can someone help please? > > > > Thx > > Balaji > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
