
8th December 2003, 09:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Canberra
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Shoto,
I have a program I developed myself that downloads the results and the final approximates for every runner for each race from the QLD, NSW and Tabcorp websites. Basically it downloads the HTML pages from the relevant websites and then pulls them apart to get the price and results data and stores this into my database (which also has all the form from Cyberhorse for each race).
I have thought about either selling the program that does this download or offering a subscription service to provide the TAB results of all races to subscribers but when I mentioned this some time ago I didn't seem to get enough interest to justify the time involved (since people seem very reluctant to pay even a modest fee for something that is available free on the net - even if it does save hours per day). Also not sure of the legal implications of providing this data since the TABs claim copyright over their prices.
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