Municipal bonds locked inside emails

[Dwight Hines]

I get the daily mailings from www.municipalbonds.com for the state of
Florida.  I'm running outlook express under the most recent release of
OS-X Macintosh.

I can not print the email or save it.

I need to get some of the muni data on a spreadsheet.

I believe it is legal to extract the data, but that is a question that
won't be met until I can extract the data.
Help,

dh


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[Randall-12]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Dwight Hines wrote:

> I get the daily mailings from www.municipalbonds.com for the state of
> Florida.  I'm running outlook express under the most recent release of
> OS-X Macintosh.
>
> I can not print the email or save it.
>
> I need to get some of the muni data on a spreadsheet.
>
> I believe it is legal to extract the data, but that is a question that
> won't be met until I can extract the data.
> Help,

Can you copy it to your clipboard and paste it into a Word doc?  If  
not, can you forward it to a gmail account and print it from there?

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[James Cloos-13]

Dwight> I get the daily mailings from www.municipalbonds.com ...  I'm
Dwight> running outlook express under the most recent release of OS-X
Dwight> Macintosh.

Dwight> I can not print the email or save it.

Dwight> I need to get some of the muni data on a spreadsheet.

I’ve subscribed to some of those mailings since reading your email.

The mail I get from them is a multipart/alternative Mime Type with a
text/plain section explaining the mail and a text/html section
containing the actual data.

So the data is just an HTML file with a single <table> containing the
interesting bits (plus some boilerplate before and after).

I don’t use OE, but there ought to be a way to save the file, after
which you should be able to edit it with any text or html editor.

Some spreadsheet programs can probably even import the data directly,
using the html table structure to split into the sheet cells.

The html has a line in the <header> of:

,----
| <BASE HREF="http://www.municipalbonds.com/archive/XX/">
`----

where XX is the (upper case) abbreviation for the state.

This suggests that you can download the files from that URL.  And in
fact I find that to be the case.  Eg, you can get the current FL file
from the URL:

http://www.municipalbonds.com/archive/FL/20070417.html

That appears to be identical to (the html part of) what they email.

-JimC
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