[R] [Rd] Retrieving data from aspx pages

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Sorry for the noise. PD said to keep this on R-devel. If this sparks
any interest, send replies there.

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:44 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Moved to r-help.
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:11 PM, jose ramon mazaira <jramaza at 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.
>>
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