Is the IB list of shortable shares available anywhere as a text file? I see it on their site as a HTML list, but couldnt find anything of the same in plain text I know TS publish their list daily on the website in a .txt file, do IB do anything similar? I need to be able to view all the available equities and paste the list into my scanner. any pointers would be greatly appreciated
HTML is plain text. Is ** trivial ** to write a simple web spider that will read that page every X minutes or seconds... And dump a time-stamped file in any format you like. I used to do this... but the list is now so good... that I don't run my spider anymore. Try Rent-a-coder... I'll bet someone will do this within one week for $100.
Text files for each country available at ftp://ftp2.interactivebrokers.com/ login as shortstock (no password) Using Firefox that is: ftp://shortstock@ftp2.interactivebrokers.com/