I’m trying to programmatically extract some data from this url: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np The issue is

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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T01:49:33+00:00 2026-05-22T01:49:33+00:00

I’m trying to programmatically extract some data from this url: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np The issue is

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I’m trying to programmatically extract some data from this url:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

The issue is that it does a meta refresh back on to itself, and I’m trying to figure out what it is passing to the second request to get it to display the final page (rather than conitnually refreshing on to itself).

In order to help with the analysis, I’ve put the first page that peforms the refresh here:
http://www.testpikefin.com/datadev/tdirect.html

There are a couple of javascript errors that can be ignored. The refresh happens after 8 seconds.

Update: Apparently I’m not phrasing the question well. Let me try another way.

When you go to this link:

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

The first html page that gets downloaded is this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

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    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="8; URL=http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np">

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    <title>Government - Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)</title>

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<body id="instit">

    <div id="container">

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<div id="header">



    <!-- BEGIN LOGO -->

    <div id="logo">

        <a href="/tdhome.htm"><img src="/images/td_logo.gif" width="232" height="50" alt="TreasuryDirect Logo" /></a>

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    <!-- BEGIN TYPE NAVIGATION -->

    <div id="typenav">

        <ul id="investortype">

            <li>You are in:</li>

            <li><a href="/indiv/indiv.htm">Individual</a></li>

            <li>&nbsp;|&nbsp;</li>

            <li><a href="/RT/RTGateway?page=institHome">Institutional</a></li>

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            <li><strong>&gt; Government</strong></li>

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                <input type="hidden" name="client" value="BPD-treasurydirect" />

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<div id="breadcrumbnav">

    <ul id="breadcrumb">

        <li><a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov">Home</a></li>

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    <li><a href="/FD/FedInvestGateway">FedInvest<sup>&reg;</sup></a></li>

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        <h1>Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)</h1>

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        <p>You can't bookmark a Debt to the Penny daily history search.   However, you can bookmark the Debt to the Penny page, at <a href="/NP/BPDLogin?application=np">http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np</a></p>



        <p>For your convenience, this page will redirect to this URL in 8 seconds or less.</p>



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    <p><em>Last Updated May 31, 2007</em></p>

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The page then refreshes back onto itself and generates this (different) html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>



    <title>Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)</title>



<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="/css/gw_td_null.css" /><style type="text/css" media="screen">@import "/css/gw_govt_screen.css"; </style><style type="text/css" media="print">@import "/css/gw_govt_print.css"; </style><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/css/gw_td_fontsize76.css" title="76" /><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Treasury Offering Announcements" href="/RI/TreasuryOfferingAnnouncements.rss"/><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Treasury Auction Results" href="/RI/TreasuryAuctionResults.rss"/><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Monthly Statement of the Public Debt" href="/rss/mspd.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Savings Bonds Pro Updates" href="/rss/sbpro.xml"/><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Savings Bonds Wizard Updates" href="/rss/wizard.xml"/>



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<body>



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    <h1>The Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It</h1>



    <p class="subhead">( <a href="/govt/resources/faq/faq_publicdebt.htm#DebtOwner">Debt Held by the Public</a> vs. <a href="/govt/resources/faq/faq_publicdebt.htm#DebtOwner">Intragovernmental Holdings</a> )</p>



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            <th>Total Public Debt Outstanding</th>

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            <tr><td>05/09/2011</td><td align="right">9,681,179,453,898.66</td><td align="right">4,644,605,091,889.65</td><td align="right">14,325,784,545,788.31</td></tr>  

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    <p>See information on the <a href="/govt/govt.htm">Debt Subject to the Limit</a>.</p>



    <h2>Daily History Search Application</h2>



<p>To find the total public debt outstanding on a specific day or days, simply select a single date or date range and click on the 'Find History' button.</p>

<p>The data on total public debt outstanding is available daily from 01/04/1993 through 05/09/2011. The debt held by the public versus intragovernmental holdings data is available:</p>

<ul>

    <li>Yearly (on a fiscal basis) from 09/30/1997 through 05/09/2011. </li>

    <li>Monthly from 09/30/01 through 03/31/05</li>

    <li>Daily from 03/31/05 through 05/09/2011</li>

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-22T01:49:34+00:00

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2026-05-22T01:49:34+00:00Added an answer on May 22, 2026 at 1:49 am

The first HTTP response sets a cookie with a session id. The refresh probably acts on that cookie, knowing that it’s now set.

If you’re writing a script to scrape the site you should be able to store and send any cookies that get set. I know that PHP / cURL can do it.

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