> On Dec 23, 2017, at 8:20 PM, farleykj <farle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Frank. > > I substituted the definition of the URL with the following > > my $urlSite = "https://www.treasurydirect.gov/"; ; > > But I still get the same message about the connection being refused. Going > by the normal browser activity, I can get to the ..BC/SBCPrice page and get > prices, etc. It just seems that Perl inquiries via LWP::UserAgent and > LWP::Simple are blocked or otherwise ignored. > > It's not like I need to update prices every day, given that pricing on EE > bonds changes at most monthly. It's just that it was nice to not have to > deal with any manual entries. > > > > ----- > Ken Farley
They do have a documented API https://www.treasurydirect.gov/webapis/webapisindex.htm <https://www.treasurydirect.gov/webapis/webapisindex.htm> So maybe someone decided automated requests should go through the API instead of parsing screen data returned from artificially filling forms. I don’t know enough about JSON or other REST things to tell how hard it would be to repurpose older query routines. -- Dave Reiser dbrei...@icloud.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
