Re: [Gretl-devel] New function for retrieving data from BLS

-----Original Message----- From: Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti [mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:32 AM To: Allin Cottrell Cc: Logan Kelly; Gretl development Subject: 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). ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------