Sporting Life Scraper

Hi all
As previously mentioned on other threads the Racing Post has changed its format and not to be outdone Sporting Life has followed suit. Nothing wrong in that except it has killed my scraper which brought the betting shows live from the racecourse.
Back in the day this was a joint effort within the members on here and was produced as a working model by leftinthestalls who doesn't seem to contribute to the forums any more.
Hopefully someone knows of him or of someone who has the ability to recreate the scraper so it works with the new SL site. If anyone can help would be grateful.

Here's how it looked

dicko14 said:

7.00 Tipperary
Full house again!!!!!
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I wouldn't even think about scraping the new site for a while, it'll probably be changing and breaking scrapers for the near future. Scrapers for the old site don't look like they can be "adapted" looks a completely different code base but the same back-end that


also points to. You should be able to point to the live.co.uk site instead of of the life one and still scrape it with the old scraper

Horseplayer
Thank you.

Horseplayer
only getting this far. any ideas?

Try .co.uk rather than .com

Horseplayer said:

Try .co.uk rather than .com

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Have done that with no joy.Still stalls at the same place.

Unfortunately I'm of little help with VB dicko14 (from an OOP perspective know little of the available Classes/methods). It'd probably be the last language choice for web scraping for me.

A Google check on your Error seems to be fixed by playing with "references" which I assume are equivalent import/include statements in "real" languages. The fact it seems to take just re-ordering them or removing then re-adding suggests it's some Microsoft Nonsense.

It looks (to me, which doesn't mean anything) your problem is in creating the object rather than reading the site data, so for the moment the url is irrelevant

Horseplayer
Thanks for taking the time to help.