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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# This script downloads Fundamental data for specific symbols from IB
# This only works IF you have Reuters data subscription!

require 'bundler/setup'

require 'ib-api'

# allocate two variables
request_id, snapshot_data  =  nil

ib = IB::Connection.new port: 7496,  :client_id => 1112 do  | gw | #, :port => 7496 # TWS
 gw.subscribe(:Alert) { |msg| puts msg.to_human }

 # Fundamental Data will arrive in XML format, we need to parse it
 gw.subscribe(:FundamentalData) { |msg| snapshot_data = msg.xml  if msg.request_id == request_id }
end

# Request Fundamental Data for IBM. Possible report types:
#     'estimates' - Estimates
#     'finstat'   - Financial statements
#     'snapshot' - Summary
request_id = ib.send_message :RequestFundamentalData,
                :contract => IB::Stock.new( symbol: 'ibm' ),
                :report_type => 'snapshot'

# Needs some time to receive and parse XML. Standard timeout of 1 sec is just too low.
ib.wait_for  :FundamentalData 

# Now just extract and use all the fundamental data you needed
 puts snapshot_data[:ReportSnapshot][:TextInfo][:Text]
 
 pp snapshot_data[:ReportSnapshot][:Ratios]
STDIN.gets

puts "Displaying the complete transmitted data:"
puts ""

pp snapshot_data

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
ib-api-972.2	example/fundamental_data
ib-api-972.1	example/fundamental_data
ib-api-972.0	example/fundamental_data