Grabbing Results of last Dog race to trigger bets..

[mattm]

I was wondering how easy this would be to do.

I want to make a bot that will grab the result of a Dog Race at x Track for the previous race and that will then trigger a bet depending on the result of the last race at the next race at the track.

Is it possible to scrape the result of the last race at x track from say the dogs.co.uk then automatically trigger a bet on my excel sheet ?

Many thanks and hello, good site.

[Captain Sensible]

Anything is possible If you just want to know the result of your last bet gruss already has something set to log bets to excel & check if they won/lost. Dogs are settled more or less straight away so shouldn't be any problems with outstanding bets. If you're looking to code your own stuff screen scraping is easy enough from any site, I use betfairs own rss feeds to update a database at the end of each day but they're updated after each race settlement.

They're in xml format sao easy to parse etc dogs results on
http://rss.betfair.com/RSS.aspx?format= ... ortID=4339 be easy enough to parse the trap number out of the FC result if the name wasn't enough on the winner market

[mattm]

Thanks alot CS.

Well i was looking into the Trap number more than anything else.

Basically ideally to have an automatic bot that i switch on.

One for each Bags meeting through the day, taking the outcome (result) of Race 1 then hitting a bet automatically 30 seconds before the off in Race 2 at the same track taking into consideration the result of Race 1, then doing this for Race 3 based on Race 2 and so on so forth.

So the results from betfair only seem to have trap name so i would have to scrap the result from dogs.co.uk or some other source providing the Trap number.

[Captain Sensible]

I used to use it as all the data would match correctly as result and bet details were all taken from betfair so wouldn't have problems with any name clashes.

If it's the trap number you want why not use the quick results frame from the greyhound micro site as that'll be updated quickly and simple to parse as there's basically no html just a feed for the frame.

http://www.betfair.com/grhp/home/quickResults.action

[Captain Sensible]

I'm assuming you're doing this through excel and gruss, I'm clueless at VB coding but can't see it being too hard to do for someone with vb knowledge as you're betting 30 seconds form the off so the result will certainly be up by then so you just need to

load the market 30 secs before the off

grab the results page,

parse out the trap number by using the meeting from Cell A1

a big of regex to grab the data between first instance of the meeting name ending with ". " take out the trap number then place your bet,

shouldn't be any need to have a separate sheet for each meeting as it could all be done on the same sheet loading todays greyhounds and set to select markets 30 seconds pre off