[10551] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
SEC'S EDGAR DATABASE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Love)
Sat Feb 26 21:48:38 1994
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 02:11:03 -0500 (EST)
From: James Love <love@essential.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Someone asked for some information on getting the SEC EDGAR data off the
net. This was our "how to." jamie
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TAXPAYER ASSETS PROJECT - INFORMATION POLICY NOTE
CROWN JEWELS CAMPAIGN - SEC'S EDGAR Version 1.1
SEC'S EDGAR DATA NOW AVAILABLE OVER INTERNET
Beginning January 17, 1993, the NSF funded project to put
the SEC's EDGAR filings on the Internet began operation. The
service is provided by NYU and the Internet Multicasting Service
(IMS), the later a service run by Carl Malamud.
The EDGAR filings are stored on an ftp site at
town.hall.org, in a subdirectory called edgar. The data are now
available both by email and by ftp. For documentation on how to
use the service, send an email message to mail@town.hall.org,
with the word help in the body of the message.
As best as we can figure, the system seems to work as
follows. There is a file with the names of all the filings,
called company.idx. Then, armed with the file name, you can get
the file by a simple email or ftp command.
1. GET THE COMPANY.IDX FILE
By email:
Send Email to "mail@town.hall.org". In the body of the
message write:
send edgar/company.idx
By ftp:
FTP to town.hall.org. Logon as "anonymous". Give your email
address as your password. At the ftp> prompt type:
ascii (then hit enter)
cd edgar (then hit enter)
get company.idx (then hit enter)
bye (then enter to logoff)
2. NEXT, FIND DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST.
Example lines in the company.Idx file:
DISNEY WALT CO 10-K 19940113 data1/0000950131-94-00021.txt
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Date File Name
3. RETRIEVING THE FILES OF INTEREST.
By EMAIL:
Send email to "mail@town.hall.org". In the body of the message
type:
send edgar/data1/0000950131-94-00021.txt
By ftp:
FTP to town.hall.org. Logon as "anonymous". Give your email
address as your password. At the ftp> prompt type:
ascii (then hit enter)
cd edgar (then hit enter)
cd data1 (then hit enter)
get 0000950131-94-00021.txt (then hit enter)
bye (then enter to logoff)
[The above file name gives you the 10-K for the Walt Disney Co.]
PS. If one wishes to get the SEC filings for a particular day, they are
listed in the " daily-index " subdirectory. The file names are in the
format " company.013194.idx ". This would be the file for January 31, 1994.
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