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I tried to get bulk data from EDGAR a while back. Turns out bulk data acquisition has been turfed to a third party, which charges for downloads. This is supposed to be federal free data, I was so pissed off. I am still pissed off.

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Huh? It takes time to download all the filings by parsing the index for free [1] but it can be done. You also have to add back off logic when you get a "too many requests" error, but it isn't that hard. I did it and I am still updating as new filings are posted.

1. https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/accessing-edgar-data.h...

How long ago was this?

Half a year?

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