Re: [Gretl-devel] New function for retrieving data from BLS
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Logan Kelly wrote:
> A curl commamd is the only problem that I see as really difficult for me in
> the process of making a getBLS or getFRED in hansel.
What features of curl would you need? Could you give a sample curl command or
two?
I guess this should be quite close to Logan's needs:
http://www.bls.gov/developers/api_unix.htm
Of course, in this special case the parameter to the -d option would
probably be a JSON rendition of the contents of a bundle, so we may
envision some special syntax for that; bearing in mind that we don't have
generic arrays, that is (see previous discussion).
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Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
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