Greyhound results

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Ardgouge
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Hi all,

I import website data into excel for greyhound results so I can run simulations throughout the day to determine which strategies I am going to use. I used to use paddy power as they were the quickest, until they stopped supporting it. I then used ukdogs feed but they are having major issues with their supplier at the moment which has resulted in no results for the last 4 days. Does anyone know of any others that may be used? I have searched high and low and am coming up empty at the moment.

Thanks for your help in advanced.

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Ardgouge
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Thanks, unfortunately betfair is slow to update and the fast results from sporting life only show a 10 races; I was hoping for the list of the whole day that is up to date.

I think I have exhausted most options. Thanks for your help.
foxwood
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How about https://www.timeform.com/greyhound-racing/results/today

Looks fairly easy to scrape but no idea how quick they are to update.
MattP
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If you're happy with the Top 3 scrape Timeform, updates seem to be reasonably quick but can't say I've compared to others.

If you need full results then Timeform has some server security that blocks too many requests. I tried mass scraping a few times but even with 10s delays between requests I was getting stopped at around 30 pages.

I was hoping to scrape a 12 month+ results database, does anyone know if that's available anywhere?
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northbound wrote:
Sun May 13, 2018 12:05 pm
http://www.gbgb.org.uk/Results.aspx
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MattP wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:46 pm
I was hoping to scrape a 12 month+ results database, does anyone know if that's available anywhere?
https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/prices/

Following is a link to about 14-15 months of data up to I believe August of last year where I've split out the course, trap, winner, distance
https://we.tl/t-flQfx5iKEX

I've posted elsewhere think it was in the excel area a file downloader that can be modified to do greyhounds
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ODPaul82 wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:50 pm
MattP wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:46 pm
I was hoping to scrape a 12 month+ results database, does anyone know if that's available anywhere?
https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/prices/

Following is a link to about 14-15 months of data up to I believe August of last year where I've split out the course, trap, winner, distance
https://we.tl/t-flQfx5iKEX

I've posted elsewhere think it was in the excel area a file downloader that can be modified to do greyhounds
Thanks. I have a spreadsheet (from this forum) that downloads the Betfair Price data and I process this into my own PostgreSQL database.

I was looking to produce and maintain my own database with full result details so I could reproduce the same kind of interface that is on Racing Post or Timeform, ultimately with a view to compiling my own ratings. I got as far as scraping the result page URLs off Timeform for the past 18 months but that was from 1 page per day to find them, processing 100 results pages per day I couldn't get around Timeform's server security!

After reading the Greyhound Mystique thread and the Trading Greyhounds thread I am going to look at pulling the data I need on a daily basis,, possibly from Racing Post. I'm a software developer so the tip someone posted about finding the private API is useful as this will be much easier to use than HTML scraping.
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MattP wrote:
Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:10 am
ODPaul82 wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:50 pm
MattP wrote:
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:46 pm
I was hoping to scrape a 12 month+ results database, does anyone know if that's available anywhere?
https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/prices/

Following is a link to about 14-15 months of data up to I believe August of last year where I've split out the course, trap, winner, distance
https://we.tl/t-flQfx5iKEX

I've posted elsewhere think it was in the excel area a file downloader that can be modified to do greyhounds
Thanks. I have a spreadsheet (from this forum) that downloads the Betfair Price data and I process this into my own PostgreSQL database.

I was looking to produce and maintain my own database with full result details so I could reproduce the same kind of interface that is on Racing Post or Timeform, ultimately with a view to compiling my own ratings. I got as far as scraping the result page URLs off Timeform for the past 18 months but that was from 1 page per day to find them, processing 100 results pages per day I couldn't get around Timeform's server security!

After reading the Greyhound Mystique thread and the Trading Greyhounds thread I am going to look at pulling the data I need on a daily basis,, possibly from Racing Post. I'm a software developer so the tip someone posted about finding the private API is useful as this will be much easier to use than HTML scraping.
Be careful when getting a dogs last run time history, there are often discrepancies between RacingPost, SportingLife and TimeForm. We never did find out why.

The most accurate seemed to be the data on https://www.gbgb.org.uk/racing/results/

Each track uploads their data to that site and I think some sort of reconciliation goes on and as a result the data is far more accurate.

Having said all that, many believe ratings for Dogs outside of A1, A2 and A3 is somewhat misleading because of Track/Trap bias. Some tracks have allot of bumping in Traps 3 and 4 unless ofcourse a dog is very quickly away.

You would be better off analysing the following:

Grade, Track, Trap

Take Yarmouth, Trap 6 has an overall win rate of 9% but if the favourite is in that Trap then it rises to 19%. But if the favourite is running in Trap 4 then its 47.5%

So, doesnt take a genius to work out that there are repeatable patterns depending on the Grade, Track and Trap.

Have fun,
Vanos32
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Exploring alternatives for importing greyhound race data into Excel for simulation purposes, users have faced challenges with Paddy Power and UKDogs feed.

Unfortunately, despite thorough searches, no viable alternatives have been found thus far. Suggestions or insights from the community would be greatly appreciated.
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I ran a basic lay the fav betangel automation file on all greyhound races yesterday to a race liability of £2.00 and ended up 6 quid up at the end of the day on UK races I haven't analyzed the Aussie results yet.
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sIGNAL
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Vanos32 wrote:
Mon Dec 25, 2023 10:54 am
Exploring alternatives for importing greyhound race data into Excel for simulation purposes, users have faced challenges with Paddy Power and UKDogs feed.

Unfortunately, despite thorough searches, no viable alternatives have been found thus far. Suggestions or insights from the community would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure what race data you wanted, results or cards but I managed to build a python script before Xmas that scrapes all the Racing Post greyhound websites daily cards and puts it all in an excel sheet for me.
It's works well and wasn't that difficult to do. I used chatgbt to write all of the scripts. You just have to feed chatgbt with the logic of what you want. It took about a week to get it all done and working.
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I only want the result of the winning dog so use data miner on gbgb.com
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