Tony,
I did a quick IM macro accessing
StockConsultant. First the good news… I was able to access the site
and download the data. No errors or access violations. Here a string
containing the extract results from the “Resistance Above” section
that was saved to a file (the last line in the code below):
"","+3.2% at 41.25 ± 0.7,
type triple+, strength 8","+6.4% at 42.55 ± 0.72, type triple,
strength 10","+9.1% at 43.61 ± 0.74, type single, strength
2","+13.7% at 45.46 ± 0.77, type single, strength 5",""
Here’s the code I created:
VERSION
BUILD=4250510
TAB T=1
TAB
CLOSEALLOTHERS
URL
GOTO=http://www.stockconsultant.com/consultnow/basicplus.cgi?ID=sample&symbol=MEE&62695#ttop
SIZE X=1122
Y=871
EXTRACT POS=3
TYPE=TITLE ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#b40000>*
EXTRACT POS=3
TYPE=TXT ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#b40000>*
EXTRACT POS=4
TYPE=TXT ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#b40000>*
EXTRACT POS=5
TYPE=TXT ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#b40000>*
EXTRACT POS=6
TYPE=TXT ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#b40000>*
EXTRACT POS=3
TYPE=TITLE ATTR=<FONT<SP>color=#0000b4>*
'Save the File
SAVEAS
TYPE=EXTRACT FOLDER=* FILE=StockConsultant_{{!NOW:yymmdd}}.csv
Now the bad news… This
StockConsultant web page is pretty dynamic. The contents of the Resistance
Above and Support Below sections change radically from symbol to symbol.
Sometimes there is data, sometimes not. For MEE, there were 4 lines in the “Resistance
Above” section and 5 lines in the Support Below section. For AEP, the
Resistance Above had NO lines and the Support Below had seven lines. While I
believe that IM can handle this, I’m not quite sure how I’d do it.
It would take some research and experimentation to handle this issue.
If you are still interested, you can
purchase a copy of the Pro or Scripting version to check it out. They have a
30 day, no cost return policy, so you could test out the product further. Finally,
if you Google the web, you may be able to find a discount coupon for these
folks. After a bit of searching, I found and used a 30% discount coupon when I
purchased mine.
Best of luck,
Dan.
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tony Lei
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:00
PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re:
Script and Stockconsultant website
Dan,
Do you think you can evaluate the Scripting software for me by performing the
following before I make my purchase?
Basically I just need to get the Support and Resistance data from
stockconsultant with a rating of 8 to 10. It will not be worthwhile if i
purchased the software to later find out that it doesn't work for that specific
website.
Thanks
tony
On 7/15/05, dan_public@xxxxxxxxxxx <dan_public@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. That's the tool that I'm using
and referring to. I have the Scripting edition. Like any
development tool, it takes a bit of getting used to. In general though,
it works great.
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message --------------
Hi
Tony and Dan,
Without knowing what web page you are trying to retrieve data from and what
data you wish to capture, then I can not address any issue of a work
around. But if retrieving data from the internet is important and then it
needs to be saved to a file then excel can do it.
I
have also used a program called IOPUS Internet Marcos to retrieve huge volumes
of data to .csv files
Tom Charlotte North Carolina
>
> From: "danclark_public" < dan_public@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/07/15 Fri PM 02:27:05 EDT
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Script and
Stockconsultant website
>
>
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