Greyhound information in database format

[zmeulescu]

Hi guys!

Is there any service that provides greyhounds data (historical as well as daily racecards) in database format? I am usually checking the Timeform greyhound racecards and such information would be of great help translated into Excel.

I asume Timeform data could be web scraped, but I don't know a thing about web scraping.

Thank you,
Paul

[The Silk Run]

Hi guys!

Is there any service that provides greyhounds data (historical as well as daily racecards) in database format? I am usually checking the Timeform greyhound racecards and such information would be of great help translated into Excel.

I asume Timeform data could be web scraped, but I don't know a thing about web scraping.

Thank you,
Paul

Hi Hi Paul
May I suggest you private message UN memfisflash. Tom is the Greyhound Tsar ....
Good Luck
Minnie LAI

[zmeulescu]

Thank you for your message and suggestion, Minnie! Will do so.

Best regards,
Paul

[sniffer66]

If it helps, I've looked everywhere for historical race cards but have never found any.
The problem with racecards is that they are a snapshot in time i.e previous last 5 race form etc

The best way I've found to get them is to download the cards in JSON format via the Racing Post API each day, saving them to disk, and then querying them in code that way. I have about 6 months worth now but with some additional formatting/metrics for my own use.

You'll need some coding ability to do the above but happy to point you in the right direction if you want to pm me

[dropss81]

This one is useful for excel power query
https://greyhoundstats.co.uk/

[MemphisFlash]

this is some of the info i have from guardian,
i do a lot of scraping also of various different things from 7 websites.

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[zmeulescu]

Thank you all for your replies!

Is there anyone here who uses Timeform race cards? I'm not sure I get all info therein correctly and I'd love to have the chance to chat about that, if possible.

Stay green!

[chasgeez]

Hi
Does anyone have a decent scraping tool? Want to get data off racing post to looking at dogs changing grades and a couple of stats to go with that.

[MemphisFlash]

Hi
Does anyone have a decent scraping tool? Want to get data off racing post to looking at dogs changing grades and a couple of stats to go with that.

I use 2 bits of software, Octoparse and ParseHub, both free but have limitations.
i get round that by exporting and deleting files so i can bypass the 10 limit on octoparse
and the 5 limit on Parsehub.

[MemphisFlash]

Thank you all for your replies!

Is there anyone here who uses Timeform race cards? I'm not sure I get all info therein correctly and I'd love to have the chance to chat about that, if possible.

Stay green!

I scrape timeform racecards every day

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[MemphisFlash]

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[chasgeez]

Hi
Does anyone have a decent scraping tool? Want to get data off racing post to looking at dogs changing grades and a couple of stats to go with that.

I use 2 bits of software, Octoparse and ParseHub, both free but have limitations.
i get round that by exporting and deleting files so i can bypass the 10 limit on octoparse
and the 5 limit on Parsehub.

Thank you. Now to see if my laptop can handle these without catching fire

[MemphisFlash]

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[stuffy]

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Thank you all for your replies!

Is there anyone here who uses Timeform race cards? I'm not sure I get all info therein correctly and I'd love to have the chance to chat about that, if possible.

Stay green!

I scrape timeform racecards every day


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Hi, to do this, do you have to scrape each card one at a time?

[MemphisFlash]

no you set it going and it scrapes all cards for the day.
takes about 20 mins.