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title: Importing large data set to Rails with background jobs
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description: Importing large sets of U.S. Security and Exchange Commission Form 4 Filings with Ruby on Rails. This episode talks about deserializing from the rough SEC XML Document format into Structs and ultimately storing in Active Record models. #rails #rubyonrails
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# Importing large data set to Rails with background jobs

*Published: April 20, 2021*
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## Description

Importing large sets of U.S. Security and Exchange Commission Form 4 Filings with Ruby on Rails. This episode talks about deserializing from the rough SEC XML Document format into Structs and ultimately storing in Active Record models.
#rails #rubyonrails

## Transcript

hey welcome back uh in this episode we&#39;re going to continue building on our form 4 sec tracker um so far we are back filling company data we&#39;re assigning tickers based on central index keys we&#39;re kind of like backfilling the companies and we&#39;re ready to start working with actual filings so i wanted to talk about the process for taking in a filing using this this ruby gem to interact with the sec called scc query and then once we get back the filing we want to parse that and i actually wrote this parser like way back and i think 2012 or 2011 so it&#39;s been it&#39;s really old it&#39;s like four i mean it&#39;s definitely uh more than four years probably six seven eight years old um some code so we&#39;re gonna look at that i&#39;m gonna be really cringy and embarrassed by the choices that i made a long time ago but we&#39;ll probably do a little bit of refactoring of that old parser and then we&#39;re going to create some active record models that we can use to put that data inside of okay so the first thing i wanted to do was just take a look at this so this is the sec query gem and this is a little script that lets you pull the most recent sec filings so if we take a look at what this does for us in um uh oh gosh i copied copy too much so if we do if we see what what this does for us inside of rails console if we look at filings now um you&#39;ll see that it gives us these instances of sec filing objects that have a link and this link is to in sec filing so this is kind of what they look like again they&#39;re these sec documents which are sort of like xml kind of and we want to parse we want to parse this xml into actual data and so i already have this um a persister or like a parser that i wrote a long time ago so we can take a we can take a really quick look at this so in lib scc4 i copied over a bunch of tools that i&#39;ve already built so if we look at the filing parser so we initialize it with a filing and then we create a bunch of these little objects here that are that will deserialize into actual structs like ruby structs so i can say sec for filing parser dot new and then pass in a filing filings.first and then i can say this is like our parser now if i say parser.um i think it&#39;s parse that should give us back this sec for ownership document and this is a an instance of a struct so i used a bunch of structs to sort of like deserialize into but this tells us what the document type is the period of report it breaks out like all of the transactions for the document so we can we can take this parsed this parsed filing and so if i wanted to so the most recent command i ran was p.parse right and that like actually grinds on the data a little bit um so one trick that you might have encountered is that you can say you can use the underscore to refer to the previous the output of the previous commands i&#39;m going to say the document is equal to underscore now i can say like doc dot as json or something to see it as json data so it&#39;s just converting that struct into json and i wanted to kind of explore this and just look at it and see what types of data we might want to store on some like internal uh model in the database so that we can more easily query for this oh this is exciting look at this coinbase um so yeah so coinbase went public this past week which was sort of exciting and this is actually a form 3a which we don&#39;t care about so the first thing is we&#39;re going to want to like filter those filings to ensure we&#39;re only looking at form fours because we only really care about form fours we&#39;re just going to limit the type of forms to those but then we want to track like what other data do we want out of this thing so period of report that feels like the day that it was filed is it subject to section 16 issuer name issuer central id the trading symbol so there&#39;s a bunch of data here that we&#39;re probably going to want to store and we want to think about how that&#39;s going to be related so let&#39;s keep doing this but let&#39;s take a look at let&#39;s try to find a filing that is a form 4 filing so filings is this array that we got back from recent and let&#39;s actually just do filings dot filter and we&#39;ll say f.term is equal to four and that should give us back only form four filings and we&#39;ll say like.first and then we&#39;ll say this is going to be our filing that we care about and then let&#39;s re-parse um an instance of that so sec for filing parser.new filing dot parse and we&#39;ll store that into doc okay so this is going to be an actual form 4 filing and why i wanted to do that is because this will give us each individual transaction that happened on that form 4 as well as some it should be giving us some like totals or some like some of their trades so let&#39;s do uh doc dot as json and take a look yeah so here you&#39;ll notice that like um we have the sum of the shares that were traded the sum of their shares after this trade so um this tells us like how much they were buying or selling relative to their like existing holdings um and then we can see uh each of these different codes represents a certain like filing type and we can see which like how many what percentage so what is the per the percentage that were code p versus code s versus v versus all of these others so i think what we might want to do is actually just store like all of this data on an instance of like a form 4 object so i think we want to create a form 4 object that has all of these fields um and let&#39;s see yeah for each transaction we&#39;ll probably want to create like a transaction model that&#39;s related to the form 4 that has all this data that we can then query um and then yeah if it is a director officer 10 10 owner or is it some other uh other owner and then we want to we definitely want to grab the title of the officer so um yeah i think let&#39;s start let&#39;s start building a form for model that will be our top level model and then that will have like uh some related things so let&#39;s do that so rails g model form four i&#39;m just gonna say generate the model like this and then we&#39;re gonna go and edit this create form four&#39;s migration directly to add all of these different pieces of data so let&#39;s uh let&#39;s track i don&#39;t think we care about the schema version but let&#39;s track it anyway um that&#39;s that&#39;s like the version of how that xml schema is set up so tdot string schema version let&#39;s grab the document type t.string document type let&#39;s do the period of report t.date period of report not subject to section 16. i actually don&#39;t care about that the issuer name so we should kind of know the issuer name and the issuers cik based on or like we could we could instead of instead of storing the issue or name and issue or cik we should be able to like look that up as a company um or like look up yeah because we already we do have a company watch we already have a company model right and this company model has a cik so we should be able to like associate those directly and theoretically we can have a form 4 that relates to a company but instead what i want to do is just store the raw data and then if we want to backfill and create like real foreign keys we can do that we might also just be able to directly relate based on this cik foreign key thing all right so issuers trading symbol so t dot string issuer trading symbol um t dot string this is going to be the owners cik so this is the person who actually traded it that&#39;s their id and this is their name so the owner&#39;s name t dot string owner name t dot string uh owner address uh i don&#39;t really so we could we could store this as a string or we could create like an address object i think what we might do is just store like we could just store all of this information from the street oops we could say like street comma city common state comma zip or whatever if we wanted to store that in fact like i&#39;m just going to skip storing the address at all um let&#39;s let&#39;s store it let&#39;s store the address so we&#39;ll just store it like denormalized so we&#39;ll store it as like one long string that has like a concatenation of all this stuff um or shoot i keep going back and forth i wonder if this is going to be valuable in any way at telling us how good of a trader this person is hmm the other thing we could do is instead of storing yeah okay so technically we should probably not store this directly on the form instead we should probably be creating a person object or a trader object for this person that has this cik and then relating that back to the form four okay so yeah let&#39;s let&#39;s actually do that so let&#39;s say t.references and then we&#39;ll say a um insider and then we&#39;ll go create a model for the insider uh so let&#39;s actually do here create table insiders do t and we&#39;re going to want their yeah their cik their name their and then their address let&#39;s just denormalize here so we&#39;ll say like address line one okay and state description yeah well we&#39;ll just leave that off okay and then we&#39;ll do t dot time stamps okay so this should create a table for insiders we&#39;re going to need to go create the model manually for insiders let&#39;s do that before we forget so if we go to app models we&#39;ll create an insider.rb file and here we&#39;ll say class insider and this inherits from application record and we&#39;ll leave it at that for now um all right so then let&#39;s let&#39;s keep going here so we&#39;re able to say t dot references insider and then we&#39;ll associate to a given insider we&#39;ll look them up by their cik when we&#39;re when we&#39;re kind of like iterating over this stuff and let&#39;s do the same let&#39;s actually yeah let&#39;s do the same for company let&#39;s do it the right way so t dot um references company and yeah we&#39;ll just look up the company which as we know has many tickers um let&#39;s actually keep yeah let&#39;s keep the uh tdot string let&#39;s just keep the ticker symbol so that we have something actually let&#39;s also yeah i want like a couple different ways to go back and look up the the company in case um in case we don&#39;t have the company already or for whatever reason um we could be able to create the company off of this data theoretically uh when we&#39;re backfilling if something happens all right let&#39;s keep going so is it a director t dot um boolean t boolean for is it an officer is it a 10 owner is other and then the officer&#39;s title this is important t dot string officer&#39;s title the officer&#39;s title is actually surprisingly uh a surprisingly strong signal of whether or not the the trade it may have like some sort of information um so there&#39;s a couple books if you&#39;re curious too about insider trading in general um though yeah let&#39;s see so the vital few versus the trivial many this is a book by george musea about um about tracking form four filings and insiders um that&#39;s a that&#39;s a really interesting one there&#39;s also another one um form for michigan there&#39;s so there was a professor in michigan who studied insider filings um i&#39;m trying to remember the name of the book in the name of oh yeah here we go investment intelligence from insider trading here we go um yes so this book is incredible it&#39;s super super good um and uh has like a ton of information about like um there&#39;s a lot of a lot of reports and a lot of data backing up the fact that if you can find a a someone who is an insider at a company and follow and copy the trades that they&#39;ve done in the past um if they have successfully made money off of their trades then they they&#39;re like good to follow basically um but it has a lot of information like okay if a ceo makes a buy um and you copy that ceo you&#39;re more likely to see higher returns than if it was like just a normal director so like maybe it was like director of marketing makes a buy if you copy the director of marketing the likelihood that you&#39;re going to see returns is a little lower so the officer&#39;s title does really matter um okay what else is here so we&#39;ve got transactions so transactions is going to be another model we&#39;ll create we&#39;ll come back and create that in a bit we might want to have transactions and derivative transactions be two different models because they work a little differently one of them is just like direct shares that are acquired or disposed of and then the other one is going to be like options that are being exercised or whatever footnotes that can be another separate table and then here we have the sum of shares so t dot what is this float we can just make it an integer i think t dot integer for this and then all of these i&#39;m just going to copy this uh so um okay so all of these are going to be um columns that tell us what percentage of their purchase was each of these codes and i think i want to say these are floats um let&#39;s try doing like uh last see if we can get one um doc dot as json let&#39;s try to get one that has a maybe some other kinds of trades um so filings yeah let&#39;s get a little a few more filings here so yeah so we want to yeah we want we want to do this filings.push f if f.term is a form four and then let&#39;s make our limit and count 100 each so we get a few more and then if we say filings dot filter f dot term is equal to four okay so now uh filings is just going to have a bunch of form fours in it and we can iterate over those or let&#39;s let&#39;s map them onto parsed filings filing parser.new f dot parse and let&#39;s also just call like dot as json i like working with it in json um which is a little bit easier to work with why is this not oh i wonder hmm yeah i bet we&#39;re getting rate limited that&#39;s okay um nope okay so how do we do this let&#39;s actually let&#39;s just keep going um so yeah i think i think this is going to be fine if we just make this a uh yeah should we make it a float rails float yeah it doesn&#39;t really matter t dot float sure okay all right so this is this is going to have this is a table it&#39;s going to have tons of columns right it&#39;s going to have a company id insider id and then like a bunch of data about the filing that actually happened but it&#39;ll be a nicer format that we can query against and we&#39;ll know which date um which date it was it happened here because we have the period of report let&#39;s actually name this diff well period of report is a little odd why don&#39;t we call it like um filing date uh or filed at filed at filing file date uh file date sure okay so we&#39;ve got these two create table statements um insider we&#39;ve got insider okay so i think we also on insider are going to want to have an index on the cik because we don&#39;t want to have duplicate ciks so add index insiders cik unique true and i think that&#39;s fine and then on this table okay so the for the form four we need some sort of uh unique id for the form four um and i in in the the columns that we were looking at so far i don&#39;t think that we have a unique id um so instead of just looking at the dock i think we&#39;re going to need to add um the the filing like the link to the filing or the id for the file maybe we should just do file id as like the unique id for the file so that we don&#39;t like duplicate which filings we&#39;re looking at and in fact like maybe we just grab the link and maybe we should put both on there the link and the file id so t dot string link and t dot string file id and then we&#39;ll make sure that both of those are unique so we&#39;re going to add some indexes add index to form fours and we&#39;ll call it file id unique true and add index for form fours uh link is unique true okay i think we could just migrate this and then start playing around we&#39;ll see rake db migrate the table is going to be pretty massive but i think that&#39;s okay it should be fine so now if we were to oh right now we still need to create the transactions right so we need to create another model for for a transaction so let&#39;s do that so railsg model form for transaction okay and we&#39;ll open that up and this is going to have what is this going to have doc dot no doc dot as as json transactions okay so acquired or disposed p dot string okay um yeah i think that&#39;s right and then sure nature of ownership and code oops and shares and security title and director indirect the form type the equity swap involved this is going to be the transaction date and shares after i&#39;m assuming we&#39;re not doing any fractional shares which is fine and price per share okay so then we&#39;ve got all the data for the transaction but we also need to relate it back to that form four so we can say t t.references form 4 and that should create the foreign key back to the form 4. all right i think that one&#39;s probably good i can&#39;t think of anything that we would want to index on so for now that&#39;s that&#39;s probably good let&#39;s just call that good and then is there does this one have any other no it doesn&#39;t have any derivative transactions i think derivative transactions are going to be different and i do think that we want to find one with that so let&#39;s let&#39;s go through filings again filings let&#39;s actually just like open some of these up derivative so we have the non-derivative table and then there&#39;s a there&#39;s usually a derivative table um if there was a derivative filing okay neither of those have it non-derivative okay this one looks more interesting non-derivative so there&#39;s this one has several non-derivative transactions um yep again a bunch of non-derivative okay yeah okay so these are all these all have just derivative non-derivative non-derivative bunch of non-derivative some of them end up having like tons and tons of transactions because they they like have to sell a little bit of a time a little bit at a time oh okay great so this one has it so zero two seven one forty zero two seven one so how do we get to you let&#39;s see where the file id is this so filings.filter where f dot file id is equal to this thing uh first that should give us our filing and now if we say we want to parse that into a filing or we want to parse it into a dock and now whoop one two three okay cool uh gosh the the rate limiting on this is is pretty rough so doc dot as json so now we have several transactions and we should also have i believe some derivative transactions yes so now we have derivative transactions also so we can say derivative transactions to dig into those and you&#39;ll notice that this is yeah this is like a little bit different because it has um it has like a strike price right oh yeah so it has the exercise price um okay so let&#39;s make one of those so rails g model form 4 derivative transaction okay and we&#39;ll open that up and i think it&#39;s going to start out pretty similar to this one we&#39;re going to want all the same stuff right like quiet of disposed of conversion or exercise price uh float and deemed execution date i can&#39;t remember if we need to make them nullable or not exercise date expiration date uh underlying security underlying security shares nature of ownership is the same code is the same shares are the same security title is the same indirect direct okay equity swap transaction date shares after price per share okay cool so we are we&#39;re good this should be this should work fine break db migrate okay all right so we&#39;ve got this parser we&#39;ve got our models now let&#39;s go um let&#39;s go walk through some code that will find recent filings and create form four objects and just kind of like persist them so let&#39;s make another i think we might have a job already that&#39;s just like not implemented so in app jobs we have fetch recent filings so this just gives us the filing the instance of the filing and so what i think we want to do is i mean we could create like a separate class that&#39;s responsible for like persisting the filing but instead we&#39;ll just we&#39;ll just keep it easy so we can say like sec for filing parser dot new filing dot parse and this will give us a doc back um so what what we were running into earlier was that when we parse the filing right or yeah when we call parse on the filing that&#39;s going to go out and fetch the data from the scc&#39;s website and when we were doing that it was failing and with a 403 forbidden so that happens i think that&#39;s happening because we&#39;re getting rate limited instead of giving us back a 429 they&#39;re just giving us a 403 because you can just like retry the request in a couple seconds and it works fine so one one concern that i have is if we do it this way right like every time we call parse this is going to potentially raise an exception so i don&#39;t actually know which one it is let&#39;s see if we can figure that out like if we just start calling um parse a bunch of times is it not going to happen now okay let&#39;s try it let&#39;s try going like over all the filings again so filings.map because i want to see what the what the actual exception type is so we can handle it yeah so rest client forbidden 403 forbidden so let&#39;s just rescue that and if we get one of those we will just say like um like puts uh 403 uh error try again later and maybe we just sleep a sleep one or something so on the scc&#39;s website it says that you can make 10 requests per second so if we if we run into this exception we&#39;ll just sleep for a second and then try like keep going try to keep going um so i&#39;m going to create the doc above with nil so that when we assign the variable here and try to use it outside of our begin rescue block we have access to it and what do we want to do we want to say like doc okay so should we one option is we can just call like doc dot is director i think right and that will just give us back the raw data so i&#39;m kind of wondering if we can just say like form four is equal to form for dot find okay so yeah we want to like find or create this so um okay a couple couple couple things first we like only consider form fours so we want to say like next if filing dot term does not equal four uh okay so then if it doesn&#39;t equal four then we also want to say next if form 4 dot find by link is equal to filing dot link because if we already have a filing then we don&#39;t want to we don&#39;t want to like re-ingest it so this will give us like two filters in the beginning that should just go to the like it should this kind of like is sort of like saying return from this block so that we can just continue um all right so now we&#39;re going to say let&#39;s try to parse it we&#39;ll part will like go fetch it and parse it and if we were able to successfully parse we want to say like form 4 is equal to um right because this one yeah yeah so let&#39;s say so we&#39;ll say form four dot new and we&#39;ll go through and populate the whole thing so link is filing dot link and then file id is filing dot file id um and let&#39;s see so yeah i want to i want to see all the different columns that we added to form four so what i want to do is let&#39;s actually just see if we can get this to save so form four dot save bang and then we&#39;ll we&#39;ll just run this job and say dot perform now okay so then we can say form four dot account and it&#39;s zero zero zero zero exit let&#39;s reload rails console just so we can see okay so perform now so we should we should be fetching these right so we&#39;re going to say like let&#39;s actually just print like puts um uh recent filing and then we&#39;ll just print out like filing dot file id and then here we&#39;ll say like um puts not a form four and then next and then here oh we need to say if we can&#39;t find it um then puts form 4 already exists all right just to give us a little bit of debugging uh reload perform now okay so it&#39;s not a form four not a form four uh and now if we do uh form four already exists form four already exists does is that true form for dot account yeah none no form forms have been created yet so find by link oh if it&#39;s yeah if it&#39;s not no ding okay reload let&#39;s try this again all right perform now and it should have created two okay great so it says record not unique this already exists key with that file id already exists so do several of the forms that were returned have that same id let&#39;s see so we found recent filing recent filing okay so it does look like it was the same id doesn&#39;t it so it says recent filing was here um okay and that does look exactly the same as this so it&#39;s saying uh let&#39;s see recent filing so we insert it into form four we gave it the link and the file id created that updated that and that was it so we inserted this link and file id and then when it tried to do the next one it said oh that&#39;s the same id so it shouldn&#39;t have done that but i thought that yeah so our check our check here i don&#39;t think this check is it a different link actually let&#39;s see um maybe the file id is the same but the link is different uh okay so this was the link for the first one and this was the link for the second one and they are indeed different okay so hmm oh you know what i bet one is for the issuer and one is for the the um one is for the company company conformed name okay what is the difference between these two okay let&#39;s let&#39;s uh let&#39;s pull them down and see what the difference is so um and this one we&#39;ll put that into like second not text oops okay so git if zero zero zero with second dot text dash dash no index um cat second text oh gosh so get diff that one with this one no index okay there&#39;s no difference between the two so as long as we have that file id we should be good to go so let&#39;s instead of looking by link we want to look by file id so filing dot file id okay so that that&#39;s cool that should help us i think so let&#39;s reload and then rerun this and uh form4.count one uh so let&#39;s that&#39;s cool that&#39;s great so let&#39;s uh we&#39;ve got our at least we&#39;ve got some logic we&#39;ve got some logic working here um so now instead of just putting in the link and the file id we want to populate all the data so let&#39;s run our annotate our annotate method here which oops so we don&#39;t actually have this yet so in development i&#39;m going to add annotate i love this gem um it adds some comments that will allow us to see which columns are on a specific model so pe annotate models okay all right so let&#39;s see so we we&#39;re gonna we&#39;re gonna pass in the schema version which is gonna be doc dot schema version document type dot document type file date dot file date is sure cik dot issuer cik all right okay insider so we&#39;re going to like find or create the insider too um all right so this is actually going to be quite a bit of logic that&#39;s okay all right just trying to use trying to use vim to get all this stuff in the right line and then we should be able to write a little macro so i&#39;m going to use let&#39;s see so insider is going to be the insider and then everything else so is director should come off of the dock so i&#39;m going to write a a macro so i can in vim i can say like qq to create or like start recording the macro so i i&#39;m starting it on the the far left edge on purpose of the the editor here so i&#39;m going to say like uh w to find the word yank in word and then i&#39;m going to go to the end put a colon and then a space in doc dot and then i&#39;m going to escape hit p for paste then i&#39;m going to go after the end put a comma escape down and then hit 0 to go to the beginning and then i&#39;m going to hit q again to stop recording and now i can say at q and that will like replay the macro and so if i figure out how many lines i need to do that for so what is it like 24 24 at q and that will like run the macro on all those lines ah i love it i missed one down here so i can say at q and that&#39;s that&#39;s done so that should um create our form for so if there&#39;s no if there&#39;s no insider so if insider.nil then we want to like create the insider so insider.createbang and we&#39;re gonna pass in so there&#39;s quite a bit of information that is available directly on here too so we can say cik is equal to doc dot owner cik and let&#39;s see name is doc dot owner name uh address line one is going to be doc dot owner address i think we can get it through here let&#39;s see uh doc okay um here his name doctor owner address dot street one i just want to make sure that i can use this uh dot notation to drill into the struct like that so street one street two and then so if the company&#39;s nil we want to kind of blow up here and just say like uh well for now we can just say like no company with dot issuer sick uh found and then we&#39;ll say next just to keep it easy we&#39;ll just no op it we kind of it&#39;s just best effort best effort here all right so let&#39;s see what we can do with that so if we run this uh let&#39;s let&#39;s actually make this um grab let&#39;s say 30 and we&#39;ll see we just want to run fetch recent filings that perform now and we&#39;re missing something okay what are we missing per code u maybe we&#39;re missing a comma there we go missing comma all right oh boom exploded okay so issuer sick for nil class interesting so if um wait if doc.nil puts like failed to parse uh i guess maybe it could have encountered some other exception here puts failed unknown or something so reload i&#39;m guessing there&#39;s some something is failing and let&#39;s figure out why okay so no method error undefined method uh issuer cik for nil class which happens here which we should put down below this check um all right so fail to parse let&#39;s also print out like uh the filing id or actually the filing link filing dot link so we can take a look at it and see what&#39;s up and run again um undefined local variable or method company okay right because this needs to happen before this um okay so no company with that id found oh right because when we backfilled companies right like we uh so this it&#39;s possible this is a new company right because the last time we backfilled companies we didn&#39;t have coinbase because coinbase just went public so i&#39;m guessing this is like the coinbase cik if we were to come up here and just drop that in is that going to give us some data let&#39;s see okay so that&#39;s actually going back pretty far uh text yeah so it is it is coinbase um okay uh so let&#39;s run our backfill companies and see if we get a new company company.count 7741 and we have another job here which is called backfill company&#39;s job and dot perform now let&#39;s we keep getting these 403s because we&#39;re hitting we&#39;re hitting the api too quickly um but all right so as that&#39;s going um that takes that takes quite a while because we&#39;re running through like a bunch of a bunch of indexes for filings so while that&#39;s going i&#39;ll open up another rails console like another instance of rails console and just see company.count see if company account is going up at all the other thing we can do is now that we&#39;ve run backfill companies we should probably be able to just go like you know only do 2021 again so let&#39;s actually kill this reload and then re-run it just from 2021 for q1234 just so that we have to we don&#39;t have to hit too many things railsconsol company.com so there we go yeah so 70 7400 yeah okay so we&#39;re definitely adding new companies here um which is cool so a couple couple things like i&#39;m trying to decouple the concept of ingesting a company in the concept of ingesting a filing we are sort of ingesting insiders uh as part of finding the filings but i found that like by breaking those things apart it&#39;s a little bit easier to manage these separate processes and you don&#39;t really find new companies too often or like new companies don&#39;t aren&#39;t added too often but um new insiders are added pretty frequently so having the insider addition be part of the filing like part of discovering the filing and then having um ingesting the company be its own thing we can run periodically maybe like once per day that works a little bit better um so in fact like maybe we could do something where it&#39;s like if we find a new company then we kick or like if we encounter a um a company that we&#39;ve never seen before or a cik for a company we&#39;ve never seen before we could kick off this background job and say like okay go run that and make sure that we have all the companies all the recent company um okay so i think we&#39;re actually form ford.account uh yeah so uh i think we got a bunch of companies so let&#39;s see if we can run this again um fetch filings dot perform now okay so let&#39;s let&#39;s increase our fetch recent filings to like 100 and 100 just to get try to get some more data in here and see if we can populate a full form 4 object with an existing company oh yeah so now we&#39;re running into those 403s we&#39;re getting rate limited every so often um i&#39;m not seeing any insert statements i&#39;m only seeing query statements so that&#39;s that&#39;s no fun the other thing i&#39;m wondering is if when we stored the cik if we stored it i can&#39;t remember if we stored it as padded or not so let&#39;s let&#39;s see if we can take a look over in another terminal company.last.cik okay so we did strip the zeros shoot okay so this is that&#39;s why we&#39;re that&#39;s why we&#39;re failing here so these ciks this is really this is actually like quite annoying um doc.issuercik.2i.2s we&#39;ll do the same thing with uh with insiders insider cik is doc dot owner cik.2 i dot 2 s that&#39;s just stripping off the leading zeros there&#39;s like inconsistent formatting on the on the sec&#39;s website so we have to do this like weird dance here okay so we&#39;re gonna reload and try again whoops that looks like it did nothing okay oh nice nice nice nice okay great yes this is perfect okay so that&#39;s a bug for sure so file date remember i changed it to file date from something else uh if only we had kept it whatever it was so doc no um oh gosh you know what we need like a really easy way to grab this thing okay so in um it was called like filing period or something like that uh let&#39;s just add a buy bug here and uh so insider.destroyall forum four dot destroy all um okay so doc dot dot as json or two h dot keys okay period of report that&#39;s what it&#39;s called so instead of file date it&#39;s period of report okay let&#39;s try this again cool oh gosh duplicate key on insider okay so i probably need to like um insider.count uh oh right so we don&#39;t want to actually create it we want to find it find by cik if it&#39;s nil then oh this is this is wrong here this should be insider cik okay try again unknown attribute company for form four great okay so when we created the form for object we didn&#39;t actually set up the association so we need to say form four belongs to a company and it belongs to an insider and an insider has many form fours and a company has many form fours i think we&#39;re getting close we&#39;re getting close and then we&#39;ll wrap it up once we&#39;re able to oh look at that look at that awesome awesome awesome we are reading in form force um we&#39;re definitely getting rate limited for sure but i think that&#39;s all right so form four already exists this is great okay this is fantastic so form four dot count nice form four dot last look at that okay so we&#39;ve got we&#39;ve got some nice nice nice nice data here okay this is fantastic all right so we&#39;re reading in the form fours for given companies uh this is cool so the next step that i want to do is go into our charts that we made a few episodes ago and then add these insider trades directly to the chart based on the dates um so we&#39;re going to do that in the next episode thanks so much for watching and sticking around i know this was a long one so appreciate your time and attention and hopefully this is i don&#39;t know somewhat interesting um kind of just like pulling in data messing around with data putting it into some models and yeah hopefully we can find some really interesting information out of these trades and then yeah maybe we can just play around buy buy and sell some stock so we&#39;ll see uh we&#39;ll see you in the next one all right

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