Comment by blitzar

I used to do this for BOE / Fed minutes, company earnings etc on the off chance they published it before the official release time.

2025-Q1-earnings.pdf - smash it every 5 seconds - rarely worked out, generally a few seconds head start at best. By the time you pull up the pdf and parse the number from it the number was on the wires anyway. Very occasionally you get a better result however.