Post #3006 by Baltassar on the Mechanical Investing board

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More and more sites made changes which made it difficult or impossible to easily download or scrape the data.
Some sites just flat out shut down altogether.
That's the risk of depending on the kindness of strangers.

Sadly true. The simple screens I use can be executed, by and large, using widely available info and calculations adapted to my limited skills in Excel. It was a sad day for me when GTR1 lost the ability to use Yahoo data; but I have learned how to do some simple things for myself as a consequence.

That is, however, a reason why I would not consider an S&P "top x" screen for myself. I am not confident that I could execute it properly absent GTR1 (which I continue to revere, of course!).

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