Im trying to download share data from a stock exchange using python. The problem is that there is no direct download link, but rather a javascript to export the data.
The data page url:
http://tase.co.il/TASE/Templates/Company/CompanyHistory.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fTASEEng%2fGeneral%2fCompany%2fcompanyHistoryData.htm%3fcompanyID%3d001216%26ShareID%3d01091248%26subDataType%3d0%26&NRNODEGUID={045D6005-5C86-4A8E-ADD4-C151A77EC14B}&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&shareID=01820083&companyID=000182&subDataType=0
When I open the data page in a browser and then the download page, it works like a charm. When I just open the download page, it doen't download anything. I guess this is because the data page injects the actual data to the variables Columns, Titles etc.
I've tried to mimic this behaviour in a python script, but without success.
def download_CSV (shareID, compID):
data_url ="http://tase.co.il/TASE/Templates/Company/CompanyHistory.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fTASEEng%2fGeneral%2fCompany%2fcompanyHistoryData.htm%3fsubDataType%3d0%26shareID%3d00759019&NRNODEGUID={045D6005-5C86-4A8E-ADD4-C151A77EC14B}&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&shareID="+shareID+"&companyID="+compID+"&subDataType=0"
import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen(data_url)
html = response.read()
down_url ="http://tase.co.il/TASE/Pages/Export.aspx?tbl=0&Columns=AddColColumnsHistory&Titles=AddColTitlesHistory&sn=dsHistory&enumTblType=GridHistorydaily&ExportType=3"
import urllib
urllib.urlretrieve (down_url, "test.csv")
Thanks a lot
