Scrape racingpost cards with python please help
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FHRTIPS
Colt
Hi thats what I been looking for (racecards runners), Is this from something that you use,
James
The json file is fetched from GitHub - 4A47/rpscrape: Scrape horse racing results data to CSV.
It has a separate racecard.py script for today or tomorrow's cards.
I then wrote my own flattener in python, which converts the json into 2, csvs
It has a separate racecard.py script for today or tomorrow's cards.
I then wrote my own flattener in python, which converts the json into 2, csvs
joe_soap
Newbie
I cannot access that link possibly due to website problems Is it located elsewhere?
StuartH
Filly
I downloaded the full year 2021 up until yesterday but it was too large to upload so I cut the most recent part out but left all the headings behind,you can download tomorrows card,I am using windows 10 have python 3.9 and just followed his instructions to install to a tee no problem
have a go
good luck
FHRTIPS
Colt
Hi sorry for late reply had been to a funeral all day,FHRTIPS
Save you doing your head in I dont think this is the software you are looking for there used to be a rp scraper on here but as far as I know it has been removed this is what you get from this program
sheet seems good, here is what i need
Course Draw Race Distance Cloth Number Horse DSLR Form
James
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Paddy
Yearling
If you can complete up to and including Section 5 of "The Complete Android Oreo Developer Course - Build 23 Apps!" course available from Building Android Apps: The Complete Android Oreo Course (currently £15.99) you should be able to create an Android app to scrape data from Racing Post cards, however you will use Java not Python.
elves
Newbie
To be honest if what you want to do is get the data, then don't create a big, ambitious app.
Do what the other experienced people have suggested; lots of simple, single function bits of software. Build up your knowledge bit by bit. Use the little bits of code here and learn what they do.
Creating an app for Android is really complicated. Possibly not as complicated as for iPhone.
If you're struggling with Python then all the Android settings will be a nightmare. I've just used Thorium, which is a low-code app builder. You can create apps that will run on phones as well as desktops. I'm not affiliated to this whatsoever, just an experienced programmer (since 1968) - Thorium Builder - Progressive Web Apps (PWA) Builder
Sort your process (or algorithm) out by hand and do it all manually at first.
Paddy
Yearling
Yes, I went off topic bringing Android and Java into it. Bringing it back to Python I found a good YouTube video called 'Python Tutorial: Web Scraping with Requests-HTML' by Corey Schafer
. The video teaches how to write a Python program (script) to scrape information from a website and save it into a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file for subsequent use in Microsoft Excel. Using Requests-HTML and Chromium (to render) a script can be written to scrape data from Racing Post online racecards including the odds which is dynamic data generated by JavaScript.
Paddy
Yearling
Freely available information from the Racing Post was scraped and used to rate horses according to Clive Holt’s Fineform Master Formula and put on a website patrickb.eu.pythonanywhere.com/racing
(The formula is not exactly the same as Mr. Holt's because there is an adjustment for the number of runners.)
(The formula is not exactly the same as Mr. Holt's because there is an adjustment for the number of runners.)
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