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 "C"/DOS 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 available but I
have googled to death.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Larry
Birmingham, Al.

Hi Larry,

I'm no expert and I've never done anything like this but, I believe there is
a technique called "page skimming" that might do what you need... worth a
Google?

Andy


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