How to get data into a strategy from xml webpage

[blackhawk]

Hi,

I need to incorporate data coming from an XML webpage (http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/latest.xml) because the strategy must take decisions depending on the new data released in this webpage once a month.

Is it possible?
How?

Thank you

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the inquiry.

This would be an item that is outside of what I can directly assist with as this is just a standard C# programming item. This is certainly possible from a C# standpoint and this should also be possible using NinjaScript as well because NinjaScript is just C#.

For learning how to do this type of item, I would suggest reviewing general C# tutorials on Web Requests, and Parsing XML data from a web request. You could use C# and logic to accomplish the getting the file and parsing it. Once you have the data, you could use that however you want in the platform.

I had composed some example searches below on how to locate more information on this topic:

"C# read xml file from web address"
Search and Result

"C# get xml from url"
search and result

Either of the above results should allow you to access the file and parse it, you would of course need to test this to ensure the server allows you to access the file and also that the xml is able to be parsed.

I look forward to being of further assistance.