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Build financial table from EDGAR XBRL files

When companies submit their reports to SEC, a number of files are made available. E.g. the latest 10-K of AAPL. From this even the SEC website (and many others) make the tables as structured data. Wha...
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jollytall

xbrl

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If you're looking to process XBRL without re-using existing XBRL software, then the best place to start would be the XBRL Specifications. In particular, the section on XLink in XBRL will explain how ...
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pdw

Download a txt file from EDGAR

I want to download this file to my local drive: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1556179/0001104659-20-000861.txt Here are my codes: import requests import urllib from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ...
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Julie

python

download

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The download is fine. The problem is that str(soup) is not well-defined, and throws html5lib into an endless loop. You probably meant soup = soup.text which (crudely) extracts the actual readable tex...
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tripleee

How should I scrape an idx file on EDGAR?

I have an idx file: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/daily-index/2020/QTR4/master.20201231.idx I could open the idx file with following codes one year ago, but the codes don't work now. Why is that?...
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Julie

python

edgar

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If you had inspected the contents of the byte_data variable, you would find that it does not have the actual content of the idx file. It is basically present to prevent scraping bots like yours. You c...
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