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-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
