
24th May 2006, 06:01 PM
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KV,
I haven't heard of those at all ....
I do it programmatically thorugh java. I haven't written the results part yet just because I am lazy. I am just updating results by hand to get a few in quickly. Then I will sit down and work out a better way of updating the results.
Its all done through java so its pretty simple stuff.
Connect to a web site, Set the cookie info, set the parameters, download the info to a file, Open the file, parse the file and get info, store it in the database.
Essentially getting the results is exactly the same. The hard bit is working out how to parse the page correctly. You need to have so many checks it isn't funny in case something changes slightly.
I currently collect TVF3 and AAP. I haven't reconciled them together yet in the database but that wouldn't be too hard if I sat for a few hours and worked out the abbrev meeting codes which correspond to each other.
As far as analysing the data I have written a few programs that automatically do my selections. I only just started getting AAP Data but I have downloaded every meeting from 1st Jan to the begining of May.
I would prefer not to share the code as it took me at least a couple of hours to write and it is still full of bugs (lots and lots of bugs which I am slowly fixing, There is no bugs in data collection unless there is a break in connection). But if you want some help with anything then let me know.
Good Luck
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