Every major vendor offers machine APIs.
As much as I appreciate this conversation, I think you are best advised to
speak directly with the big five vendors. Service breadth and price differ,
as do their API specifications. Just request their API specs and they will
happily give it to a new prospective client along with the dealer's
obligatory sample fix.

Cheers

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Ralph Vince <rvince99@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I'm willing to pay for it, but I would like to get it
> automatically into a format I can parse and use, not even sure where
> that exists at the moment. (Doesn't Yahoo Finance get their data from
> CSI?) Ralph Vince
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, G See <gsee000@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian@braverock.com>
> wrote:
> >> The only way I know of to get out of maintaining it by hand is to pay
> for
> >> data.
> >>
> >> On the GUI side, Bloomberg, Factset, and Reuters have all been mentioned
> >> already I think.  Rbbg of course talks to Bloomberg.
> >>
> >> On the other vendor side, I think Interactive Brokers has this data,
> and it
> >> may be available via the IBrokers package if it is available via the IB
> API.
> >> Additional vendors, such as CSIdata, tickdata.com, Reuters, CRSP,
> Telekurs,
> >> etc all sell this data, at varying prices and quality.
> >
> > Interactive Brokers does provide an "Upcoming Dividend Schedule" for
> > stocks, but it is a rough estimate that is often wrong.  Also, I don't
> > think you can get it from their API (although if someone knows how,
> > please speak up).  I think you have to go into the GUI, right-click a
> > stock and select Dividend Schedule.
> >
> > -Garrett
> >
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