Difficult access to ETF holding data

💸 moneyproduct problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

An individual investor reports that many ETF providers make it unnecessarily difficult to access fund holding data by using broken websites, requiring manual clicks through prompts, and failing to provide direct, machine-readable download links like CSVs.

Who's affected: Individual investors attempting to perform independent research on ETF holdings.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

Manually navigating complex website interfaces
Writing custom scripts to scrape data
Giving up on specific providers

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

A browser extension that automatically detects and extracts fund holding data into a standardized CSV format from various provider websites.
A centralized, community-maintained repository that scrapes and hosts clean, machine-readable holding data for major ETFs.
A browser-based tool that provides a unified search interface for ETF holdings, bypassing individual provider website friction.

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Real voices

“Most seem to begrudgingly publish legally required information .. but then spent significant extra effort to make it extra annoying for anyone actually bothering to access.”

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Difficult access to ETF holding data

What people do today

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