INNER CODE UNIT · Python

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lefterisloukas/edgar-crawler · download_filings.py:54

def main():
    """
    Orchestrates the entire flow of crawling and downloading filings from SEC EDGAR.

    This function performs the following steps:
    1. Loads the configuration file.
    2. Creates necessary directories.
    3. Filters out the unnecessary years.
    4. Downloads the indices.
    5. Gets specific indices according to the provided filing types and CIKs/tickers.
    6. Compares the new indices with the old ones to download only the new filings.
    7. Crawls through each index to download (.tsv files) and save the filing.

    Raises:
            SystemExit: If no filing types are provided or if there are no new filings to download.
    """

    # Load the configuration file

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