Cannot scrape January 3 records from 2012-2025

[ellamaclaughlin]

The scraper and parser are working great overall, but we've run into the issue that it cannot extract any records on the date January 3 (the official first session of each year) from the past 14 years. This is likely because January 3 typically includes two Volumes as opposed to the norm of one.

[nclarkjudd]

Great catch. Would you be interested in writing a patch yourself and sending in a PR? It might be quicker for me to help you do it (eg pointing to where in the code the issues are likely to be) rather than wait for me to handle it all on my own.

[ellamaclaughlin]

Thanks for your quick response! I'll try my best - my guess is that it's somewhere in the downloader.py file's bulkdownload function, is that right?

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