Post #2656 by platykurtic on the Mechanical Investing board

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Although on a bit closer inspection the other tool may be using "good old fashioned data scraping" as it describes it (which may take some time). I can provide a link if you're interested to the LGPLed source code in Python.

As a general note it seems data vendors are charging more or tightening terms of use and a lot of free or cheap data sources are drying up as a result.

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