[Chicago-talk] Getting quotes from the CBOE

[Jay Strauss]

Thanks, it wouldn't be very easy to parse but probably doable.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM, imran javaid <imranjj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Putting something on the web does not automatically make it public domain.
> If all you want is basic data (not quotes), check out
> http://www.theocc.com/onn/issues/search_issues.jsp
> it isn't intuitive for scrapping, but can be done, e.g.
> http://www.theocc.com/cgi-bin/series_search.pl?search=MSQ&type=O
> I don't know how much they charge for signing up to get the data via an
> SFTP account. There is a link on the first page for that.
> -imran
>  On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>
>>   Hi,
>>
>> I want to download equity option data (like price, strike, expiration...)
>>
>> On the CBOE's web page for delayed quotes they have the following
>> disclaimer:
>>
>> "PLEASE NOTE: IT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO DOWNLOAD DELAYED QUOTE TABLE
>> DATA FROM THIS WEB SITE BY USING AUTO-EXTRACTION PROGRAMS/QUERIES AND/OR
>> SOFTWARE. CBOE WILL BLOCK IP ADDRESSES OF ALL PARTIES WHO ATTEMPT TO DO SO.
>> THIS DATA IS PROPERTY OF THOMSON FINANCIAL/ILX. DOWNLOADING THIS DATA IN ANY
>> OTHER WAY THAN BY MANUAL TICKER SYMBOL ENTRY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED"
>>
>> Once they put it on the web isn't the data public domain?  Isn't this
>> really just scare language?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jay
>>
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