On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 11:15:02 AM UTC+7, Martin Blais wrote:
>
> However, ETF issuers always provide some way for you to download the
> detailed list of holdings since they're marketing to the investor, they're
> trying to convince you to use those as investment vehicles. Like those
> websites, I think they might charge institutions for data access because
> they often make it a real pain to scrape those lists of holding (lots of
> JavaScript with ugly URLs and such, basically not easy at all).
>
They aren't charging for access to the data :)
All ETFs & mutual funds (and hedge funds, for that matter) are required to
file their holdings with the SEC on a regular basis in their quarterly N-Q
filing ("Quarterly Schedule of portfolio holdings of management investment
companies"). All of these are available for free on Edgar (though Edgar
is...not easy to use). The format is an XML thing. Here's one for Vanguard:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36405/000093247118006124/0000932471-18-006124.txt
It isn't perfect for your needs, since, e.g. there is no "ticker symbol"
and the company name looks pretty free-form to me. It also isn't exactly
"well structured" XML. It is more like HTML tables (including page breaks)
stuffed inside of an XML container. But it might be easier than trying to
navigate the different provider websites.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Beancount" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0458ef37-77be-495b-968b-8bb5818a21ac%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
