Here is Python code to get the BSP daily (Monday to Friday) key rates and other statistics. It is assumed that the web pages are stored as html files. The program is written so that it will do the job correctly. It is not elegant nor a speed demon. The output may be viewed at our Economics page:

Economic Indicators Page

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from glob import *

def between(line,  before,  after):
       f = line.find(before)
       if f >= 0:
           s = line[f+len(before): ]
           return s[:s.find(after)]
       else:
           return ""
   
def linefeeder(s=None):
    if s:
       lines = s.plit("\n")
    for line in lines:
        yield line


def mdy(d):
    """
    Reformats date d to form month.day.year 
    """
    day,  month, year = d.split()
    amonths = ["January", "February",'March',  "April",  "May",  "June",  "July", "August", 
                        "September",  "October",  "November",  "December"]
    return "%02d.%02d.%s" % (amonths.index(month)+1,  int(day),  year)
   
state = 0
out = []
for fname  in glob("*bsp*.html"):
    bspdata = open(fname).read()
    s = ""
    state = 0
    for line in bspdata.split("\n"):
        if "
" in line:
            date = between (line, "
", "
")
            if date:
                s+="
" + mdy(date) + ""
                state = 1
            continue  
        if state == 1:
            if  "keystat/day99.htm" in line:
              state = 2
            continue
        if state == 2:
            #dollar rate.
            dollarrate = between(line,  "right\">", "
" ) 
            if dollarrate:
                s+="" + dollarrate +""
                state= 3
            continue
        if state == 3:
            if "bspratesdds" in line:
                state = 4
            continue
        if state == 4:
            reporate = between(line,  '
', '
')
            if reporate:
                s+=""+ reporate + ""
                state = 5
            continue
        if state == 5:
            if "Reverse Repo Rate" in line:
                state = 6
            continue
        if state == 6:
            revreporate= between(line,  "right\">",  "
")
            if revreporate:
                s+=""+ revreporate+"" 
                state = 7
            continue
        if state == 7:
            if "Inflation Rate" in line:
                state = 8
            continue
        if state == 8:
            infrate = between(line, "right\">",  "
")
            if infrate:
                s+=""+ infrate+ ""
                state = 9
            continue
        if state == 9:
            if "NEER" in line:
                state = 10
            continue
        if state == 10:
            NEER = between(line,  "right\">",  "
").strip()
            if NEER: 
                s+=""+  NEER+  ""
                state = 11
            continue
        if state == 11:
            if "91-day" in line:
                state = 12
            continue
        if state == 12:
            d91 = between(line,  "right\">",  "
")
            if d91:
                s+=""+  d91+ ""
                state = 13
            continue
        if state == 13:
            if "Gold" in line:
                state = 14
            continue
        if state == 14:
            gold = between(line,  "right\">",  "
")
            if gold:
                s+=""+  gold+"" 
                state = 15
            continue
        if state == 15:
            if "Silver" in line:
                state = 16
            continue
        if state == 16:
            silver = between(line, "right\">",  "
")
            if silver:
                s+= ""+ silver +"
"
                state = 0
                out.append(s)
                break
                
out.sort(reverse=True)
print out[0]
for i in range(len(out)):
    if out[i] != out[i-1]:
        print i, ":", out[i]
                

We plan to make the code cleaner by using the linefeeder function, but this can wait as we have more important things to do.