URL for site scrapping

[hexer]

Does anybody know the URL for site scrapping. I need the saddle cloth numbers and quotes of each horse market.

At the moment I am using following URL:

http://uk.site.sports.betfair.com/betti ... ion.do?mi= plus marketID


But this URL does not give me always the actual betfair-order of the horses. It does not show me the upt to date order always.

So maybe someone knows another URL which is always supporting the actual Betfair-order of the horses and saddle cloth numbers in each market.

Thanks

[Captain Sensible]

Been a while since I've done much scraping but I think Initialmarketdataaction populates the initail market data (as expected) setting the saddle cloth, order, roll over text etc and the market order. The price data is then refreshed on that market by calling

http://uk.site.sports.betfair.com/betti ... a.do?mi=???

The price data is then merged into the existing shell loaded by intialmarketdataaction if that makes sense to you and would not change the order the market was initially loaded as

Not too sure what you mean by order (I'm assuming increasing odds) or why you'd need Betfairs order

[hexer]

With betfair order I mean that with the URL I get different results then it appears on the screen.

Example of saddle cloth numbers, name of horse, quotes, of the horses:

The screen shows:
3 Big Bird
5 Slow Fox
1 Mr. Hoo
4 Daisy
2 Donald

With http://uk.site.sports.betfair.com/betti ... ion.do?mi= plus marketID I get:

4 Daisy
1 Mr. Hoo
3 Big Bird
2 Donald
5 Slow Fox

So it is not the same like on the screen, but I would need the same order.

[Captain Sensible]

It might be that odds have changed and betfair have reset the order since you loaded the screen. When you initially load that screen that is the order at that time and is used for the duration whilst you stay on that page. Any updated odds are then loaded into the screen by calling getpartialmarketdata and placed on the screen using javascript.

Obviously the reason for this is odds change all the while but you wouldn't want horses moving position just cos their odds changed you want it set at the positions when you loaded the market. However not everyone goes into the market at the same time so betfairs initial ordering changes in line with odds changes and someone loading market 10 minutes after you did would most likely get a different order.

You can get the initial order number from looking at the data returned

p.m_ER(17082809,1552995,100531251,'Bold Adventure',0,false,3.35,82.0,3.4,97.0,3.45,72.0,3.5,162.0,3.55,225.0,3.6,252.0,oM,1,11,"http://content-cache.betfair.com/feeds_images/Horses/SilkColours/c20090429kem/00054973.jpg","Yellow, red disc, red sleeves, yellow armlets, red cap","Chris Catlin","W. J. Musson","5 / 9-11","90-1212","33","0 ","")

The 0 means it's first (i.e. programming language starts at 0 not 1 as it's in an array of data)