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I started doing this with 10k reports, the different formatting between different years was too much of a pain in the ass. They started embedding Excel document
by kusmi 8y ago
I started doing this with 10k reports, the different formatting between different years was too much of a pain in the ass. They started embedding Excel documents in what I think is base64 into text files? I don't know. In the 90s the tables were in plain text.
- rpedela 8y agoYes, XBRL (XML) files. However they only give you the financials. What OP wanted was management summary, risk factors, etc which still needs to be parsed. Luckily many companies now will put anchors to those sections in the HTML.