I am gutted. I only used to download the Meeting Summary xml feed from VicTab's 'old' web service to build a race list of a given day's races and it suddenly stopped working.....Couldn't for the life of me work out why until I read on their Support pages (http://nettab.custhelp.com/app/answ...dds-web-service) that it is all over.

We now have to use their proper web service suite', which doesn't look easy for Excel/VBA developers.

I tried playing around with XQuery to see if the Tatts.com xml feeds have the necessary information, but it doesn't seem to have it all for any given date (i.e. 06/11/2012)

Does anyone else know where I can get a list of the day's races from in a list format inclduing Time, Track, Race #, Race Name and Class for any given date please?

God forbid my punting days come to an end because of this.... :-)

This any good to you?

http://www.ozbet.com.au/UI/RacingUI...reDate=19122012

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Has anyone tried Subcriptiondata.com to get the data feed? The cost is quite high over time so that puts me off.

Ta,
Martin

Forgot to add - Are there any other feed services?

Ta,
Martin

I expect there will be plenty soon enough as this seems to be all about squeezing a few more $$ out of punters.

$65 a month for an odds feed?? not in this lifetime

I agree the service is too hard to be a service. Getting past the security is my problem. And I do not see why they have it. How many people are actually accessing it? I think that they have made it too hard to use
Martin

Web services are a standard approach in the industry. I can fully understand why they did this. There are a lot of people ripping off their data with no gain to them (ie, they don't bet with the tab).

Betfair uses the exact same method (web services), it is just that there are a lot more examples of how to access the betfair services then the tab's.

It shouldn't be too hard to get the data in excel and there would be 1000's of examples of how to use a web service out there.



how many web sites do you see showing tab prices? There would be thousands and none of these sites bet. They just show the odds.

This is what they are trying to discourage.

Unfortunately they have done it at the expense of their end users, most of whom do not have the programming knowledge necessary to make sense of the gobly gook that is the 'web services' approach they have decided upon.

No doubt some bright spark will cash in shortly with 'pay for' app of some sort that will allow us mugs to once again integrate the Tab site with Excel, at present it is complicated beyond belief, even their own people struggle with offering any useful advice or a logical approach to take.

This is my point, i don't mind them doing it because they need to protect there product but at least they could have knowledge of how it works and examples of how we can use it.

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Indeed Shaun & why I believe much like Betfair issues API licences, the TAB will end up doing something similar as I fail to see anyone using their web services other than the small number of people with the necessary programming background.

The Tab's web services introduction has been handled appallingly, someones head really should be on the chopping block.