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Download weekly tickdata per symbol from FXCM public servers, extract and convert to unix file
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#!/bin/bash | |
## tick data download from fxcm public api | |
#title :tickdatadl | |
#description :tick data download per week from fxcm public api | |
#author :Arne Gockeln <[email protected]> | |
#version :0.1 | |
#notes :requires tr and dos2unix | |
#================================================================================= | |
if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then | |
echo "This script downloads tick data csv files from FXCM public servers." | |
echo "Usage:" | |
echo " $0 symbol year week" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
SYMBOL=$1 | |
YEAR=$2 | |
WEEK=$3 | |
DESTFILE="$SYMBOL-$YEAR-$WEEK.csv" | |
# download path | |
DLFILE="https://tickdata.fxcorporate.com/$SYMBOL/$YEAR/$WEEK.csv.gz" | |
if [ -d /tmp ]; then | |
# download file to tickdata.csv.gz | |
echo "Download..." | |
curl $DLFILE > /tmp/tickdata.csv.gz | |
if [ -f /tmp/tickdata.csv.gz ]; then | |
# gunzip | |
echo "Extract..." | |
gunzip /tmp/tickdata.csv.gz | |
fi | |
if [ -f /tmp/tickdata.csv ]; then | |
# replace 0byte | |
echo "Convert..." | |
tr < /tmp/tickdata.csv -d '\000' > /tmp/tickdata.csv.out | |
# convert to unix | |
dos2unix /tmp/tickdata.csv.out | |
# move to destination | |
echo "Move to $DESTFILE" | |
mv /tmp/tickdata.csv.out $DESTFILE | |
# clean up | |
rm /tmp/tickdata.csv | |
echo "Done." | |
fi | |
fi |
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