Oddschecker/Bestbetting excel spreadsheet

[doris_day]

Hope you guys have all been doing well.

2011 was a horrible year for me for many reasons and I'm glad its behind me. I'm hoping for much better things this year.

Haven't been doing much gambling over the past few months since my last post but I've been doing lots of research and theoretical stuff. One avenue I'm going down will require me to gather data from either Oddschecker or Bestbetting and I wondered if anyone has a spreadsheet that works with those ? It doesn't need to be used with Gruss but rather should be able to gather all the days racing at once. There was one posted at Punterslounge but that doesn't work as Oddschecker seems to regularly change its code. I have that one and could send it to anyone if they think they can modify it. Or if someone else has an alternative that would be great.

Meanwhile. here's to a good 2012 to you all.

[alrodopial]

Something like pressing a button and gather the odds from all meetings?

I just finished something like this and If it suits you let me know and I will post it here.
I need a day to delete all the garbage in it and it will be ready.
You know vba and you will modify it to your needs.

Let me know

[doris_day]

That would be great. Thanks

[alrodopial]

Did n't test it after the 'cleaning'
An interesting macro is the 'elementsOFoddschecker'
It can be useful for other sites


http://www.4shared.com/file/HnBu6ZXU/Od ... ecker.html

[alrodopial]

The file had problems, in this one at least the "oddscheckernow" macro works ok


http://www.4shared.com/file/8_SdKYCz/Od ... ker_2.html

[doris_day]

Thanks for that. Much appreciated.Works a treat.

[2020vision]

Hi

Not sure if this will apply but a while ago I was barred from Oddschecker
for acquiring too much data from their site as described here:
http://www.gruss-software.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6606

All I am saying is be careful?

All the best - Michael

[alrodopial]

How many tabs did you have open at the same time and for how long? (estimation)

[doris_day]

Thanks for that 2020.

Oddschecker obviously have the same attitude to their customers as Betfair

[2020vision]

How many tabs did you have open at the same time and for how long? (estimation)

To be honest I was an all day up to 70 pages or tabs open at a time dogs bettor.

Have slackened off considerably now but was also a regular scraper of the odds
on a continual(ish) basis race by race in order to "catch" the first show.

After a few emails, 3 days and almost getting to know the person who could
unblock me I was told to stop scraping but could have as many browser pages open
as I liked. They said this would not do them any harm - the continuous scraping
was to blame. I apologised, accepted blame and gave my word to do it
their way and was allowed back in. Since then no problems.

Hope this is of some use - Michael

P.S. My best guess is that as long as the data taken is not concentrated
or continual you would have no problems?

[doris_day]

Interesting. Hopefully all your efforts proved profitable.

I'm just accessing the data one or two times a day so I doubt it'll appear on their radar.

[2020vision]

Interesting. Hopefully all your efforts proved profitable.

They did indeed prove rather profitable - thanks...

I'm just accessing the data one or two times a day so I doubt it'll appear on their radar.

Most likely they will not notice you then?

Good Luck - Michael