Ferd Berfel
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C# emulate an aspx button down web request
looking for c# web request to eoddata.com for their free end of day data for each of the three major exchanges. It looks like I need to pretend to be their aspx page and sending back a 'button pushed' message to do that. I've got a session cookie and I used Wire Shark to look at the packets but I'm not clear on what I send. I think the button down POST gets back the proper cookie info like user id and key but I haven't sorted that out.
Any helpers?
I do not have an account with them because I only need the end of day data once a day. I need to write this as a Windows service so I can grab the daily data unattended and not miss any.
Any helpers?
I do not have an account with them because I only need the end of day data once a day. I need to write this as a Windows service so I can grab the daily data unattended and not miss any.
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yes, but the End of Day data is free and no need for a membership. All I want to do is grab with a once a day Windows service what I can do manually. They rightfully don't want scrapers and such spooling off the data (hourly, etc.). I need this for my personal use. What you are describing is for data way beyond my needs.
I have distractions that can keep me away from the ability to manually download the data and then I have gaps which make it impossible to do a decent math study of the price action. I would never sell their data.
I have an account at TD Ameritrade but downloading 8,000+ stocks even with just the close of day numbers is a murderously long operation. EODdata has it all nicely put together in a csv file for each exchange. Once I have culled the 'herd' for certain price action I can then go real time with thinkorswim and see if I really want to do the trade.
I have distractions that can keep me away from the ability to manually download the data and then I have gaps which make it impossible to do a decent math study of the price action. I would never sell their data.
I have an account at TD Ameritrade but downloading 8,000+ stocks even with just the close of day numbers is a murderously long operation. EODdata has it all nicely put together in a csv file for each exchange. Once I have culled the 'herd' for certain price action I can then go real time with thinkorswim and see if I really want to do the trade.
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because that method is very expensive
I only want to use the free end of day offering
However I will go back and look over their offerings and send them a query.
I only want to use the free end of day offering
However I will go back and look over their offerings and send them a query.
Silver member ship and higher allows FTP download and Platinum allows web service requests.
So imho, this maybe illegal (ianal), Just go for the FTP download.