What this task does

Watch the USDA WASDE report page and get the new monthly WASDE files (Excel, PDF, XML, text) as soon as they are published, with the Excel tables already read into JSON. Links USDA posts before the release are flagged as pending, not downloaded. Schedule it hourly on release day. It runs on USDA Report Watcher: New WASDE & ERS Data File Alerts, costs $0.01 per new or updated file, and exports to CSV, JSON or Excel.

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{
  "pages": [
    "https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/general-information/staff-offices/office-chief-economist/commodity-markets/wasde-report",
    "https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/3t945q76s"
  ],
  "fileTypes": [
    "xls",
    "pdf",
    "xml",
    "txt"
  ],
  "extractTables": true,
  "saveFiles": true,
  "reportExistingAsNew": false
}

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💵 What this task costs

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