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Originally Posted by DeltaLover
Since the opening day of the Saratoga meet NYRA's website has been changed (to the worse) breaking all backwards compatibility to any kind of software that was scrapping it.
Naturally my scratches retrieval bots (that have been working unchanged for several years) are failing and this morning that I had some free time I decided to go ahead and fix the problem.
Trying bris, drf, equibase and nyra, I realized out that what was supposed to be a trivial API request is unnecessary complicated requiring an active account and in the case of Bris the starting of the WebTote!
Is is so difficult for those who are running the game to understand that we are no longer in the '80s and many of the horse players need a reliable feed to at least get the changes and the entries?
Why do they have to complicate things that are supposed to be trivial to the extreme?
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1. They do not care.
2. They are not technical
3. They're cheap
4. The government sucks at it too.
By Now the 4 sites you listed above would have an interactive site where one can produce a customized view for each viewer. I recall a site years ago that had an sql-driven api which allowed you to make your own queries.
However the real issue is there is no decent money to be made as a website developer in Horse racing. So many other areas with a large customer base,
to develop for.
