I have just started using Debian but have been around computing for 20
years.

What I want to do is capture the market data my broker feeds to me via their
trading page.  The web page containing the data is constantly updating,
except I want to be able to take a snapshot about 20 times per hour for the
"put/call" prices at a specified time so I can have a historical timeline.
The broker does not provide a historical/daily/minute update so it is up to
me to capture this data and massage it into a format I can use.

Several years ago I wrote some Paschal file utilities that would parse out
bad data from downloads but I don't think the above described application
would be the same as this was kinda pre internet....still using Bulletin
Boards back then with a 300 baud modem.

I wish I could find a macro, as you see I don't know what is avaliable but I
have googled to death.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Larry
Birmingham, Al.

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:05:17 -0600, Larry
<larry@charter.net> wrote:
> I have just started using Debian but have been around computing for 20
> years.
>
> What I want to do is capture the market data my broker feeds to me via the
ir
> trading page.  The web page containing the data is constantly updating,
> except I want to be able to take a snapshot about 20 times per hour for th
e
> "put/call" prices at a specified time so I can have a historical timeline.
> The broker does not provide a historical/daily/minute update so it is up t
o
> me to capture this data and massage it into a format I can use.
>
> Several years ago I wrote some Paschal file utilities that would parse out
> bad data from downloads but I don't think the above described application
> would be the same as this was kinda pre internet....still using Bulletin
> Boards back then with a 300 baud modem.
>
> I wish I could find a macro, as you see I don't know what is avaliable but
 I
> have googled to death.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
You might try Finance::Quote, that's what GnuCash uses (I use GnuCash,
but not the stock-market functions).


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