Currently using CSI on a Windows machine, but trying to switch over to just Linux. I'm having trouble even finding a software option for non-Windows OS. Are there any out there? TIA! Joel
Www.interactivebrokers.com have a Linux version and an api which you get data out of. Www.quandl.com have an api which you can access from Linux.
I don't want to have to write my own API code to pull the entire US market down. I'd like a prepackaged solution to download to something like CSV. Are there any tools to go along with those?
Have you looked into using Oracle's Virtualbox to run a windows VM inside Linux (with a shared area of disk)?
I'm loading the data into a database currently. And I'm trying to avoid Windows entirely to keep things simple, so using a VM doesn't help a lot there.
https://www.barcharttrader.com/download.php has a Linux version. http://www.tradinggeeks.net/downloads/ib-data-downloader/ java runs on Linux to get IB data.
Several years ago, I subscribed to eoddata.com and deltaneutral.com, each of which offered daily comma separated variable (".csv") files via file transfer protocol ("FTP"), which I believe I mirrored under Linux using wget with "ftp://hostname/file" URL's. Perhaps you could do the same with other tools, such as "curl". I believe that, back then, at least one of those two stopped providing bid-ask data for US equity options, many of which do not trade in a day, making that part of their data almost useless.