Cheers, managed to work it out in the end. They are in fact using AJAX to call back to the server to get the data. Managed to debug the Javascript with IE8's `Developer Tools` function. Quite a useful tool actually. The parameters needed to post back are a bit hard to fathom but got there in the end
Birchy: Scraping Racing Post Live Odds — I don't use the Racing Post but they are probably using AJAX in the background. Rather than refreshing the whole page, they are probably using JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest() function and then inserting the relevant data. Take a look at the HTML and check the source code of any imported .js files
Driveblind: Scraping Racing Post Live Odds — Hi Guys, Scraping most data from the Racing Post website seems fairly easy to do using standard HTTP Get commands and then parsing the HTML. However, when it comes to getting the data for the live odds shows, this information is not returned in the page html. It looks like they have got some some of applet call back to the server to periodically refresh the odds. I've montiered the site…
Fred77: Betfair API performance — Yes yes I know you said so lol. But as I've said before - if somebody says something is impossible or that they have failed in their own attempts - then that's something I will have a look at (subject to sufficient motivation levels). I figured x-games success would be down to large funds and betting speed, and with my experience of attempting 1.01 IR horse lays (which I finally gave up on) I…
Birchy: Betfair API performance — " the margins are so tight and perfect that x-games is ... the perfect vehicle for earning bf commission lol -fred77"I told you that about 2 years ago. You just don't listen to me, do you Fred. lol Poker bot is currently on a downswing. Hope it also has an equal upswing at some point in the future. It's my biggest project ever but i HAVE learnt a lot along the way, including…
Myrddin: I'm trying to come up with metrics — You could use the traded volume (percentage) multiplied by the price (adjusted to 100) to see if the book is balanced; for each runner, a balanced book would give a product of 1:e.g. 3 runners A,B,C with prices (averaged over the minute and adjusted to 100) of:A: 2.00 B: 4.00 C: 4.00Now if the percentage of traded volume for each is 55%, 25%, 20% you would get:A: 2.00 x 0.55 = 1.10 B: 4.00 x 0.25…
Fred77: Betfair API performance — Well done on the promotion birchy, that's quite a nice raise. It's about time you had some joy from your bot endevours though, hopefully your poker bot trend will be the real thing. I got so fed up with sports botting recently that I looked at bf x-games for a break. That was a mistake though, there's slow and there's slow, the margins are so tight and perfect that x-games is ... the perfect…
