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Tianwei's avatar

I wonder if it makes sense to write a script to scrape the information and detect large buy backs automatically for every ticker.

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Andrew Walker's avatar

if someone did, i would certainly subscribe!

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anon's avatar

'new constructs' does very granular scrapings, maybe they would pick this up. (disclaimer: am a fan of their overall process)

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Steven Khaleel's avatar

Tianwei, is it possible to scrape the "quarterly earnings conference call" transcripts?

This could be another good source for what you're trying to do.

If feasible, what source do you get all/most CC written transcripts from?

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Smaug's avatar

I have the same question about where they are aggregated. It would definitely be possible to use Natural Language Processing to scrape them. I am not sure how I would tell the computer to look for differences in share count.

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Steven Khaleel's avatar

Andrew, do you know the answer...is there a source where are all the CC transcripts are aggregated? The reason being in order to scrape.

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Bernardo Brega's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻✍️

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Smaug's avatar

Thank you. :)

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anon's avatar

in terms of absolute dollar impact, samples of the inevitable charter/liberty cannabilism would be more widely interesting!

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Chuck Sarahan II's avatar

Like the others I wonder if there is service that tracks this. Certainly how you get the proxy. It is possible to screen scrape practically anything on a screen so that certainly is an option.

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