Tradingeconomics wants you to pay a ridiculous amount for the privilege of exporting public data as csv.

Their site obtains economic data from some api in base64, gzip and XOR encrypted form. I (kinda, got help from Chatgpt) made a script to decrypt and convert data to a readable excel sheet.

https://pastebin.com/raw/gxXZnN37

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for sharing the source. My issue with the cloudfront uri was that by just looking at it, you can't actually tell that tradingeconomics owns it. For all we know it could've been spun up by anybody