From pgilbert902 at gmail.com  Tue Oct 30 13:38:23 2012
From: pgilbert902 at gmail.com (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:38:23 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages
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I don't know of an easy way to do this in R. I've been doing something 
similar with python scripts called from R. If anyone knows how to do 
this with just R, I would appreciate hearing too.

Paul

On 12-10-29 04:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira 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.
>
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[Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages
Paul Gilbert