Thanks Nick for the reply Of course my first post was a general posting to see if someone would be able to help here is the website which holds the data I require http://www.aapracingandsports.com.au/racing/raceresultsonly.asp?storydate=27/07/2006&meetings=bdgo
The fields required are as follows NSW Tab # Win Place 2 $4.60 $2.40 5 $2.70 1 $1.30 Quin $23.00 Tri $120.70 Field names are Date ( not important ) Track................= Bendigo RaceNo............on web page Res1st...............2 Res2nd..............5 Res3rd..............1 Div1..................$4.60 DivPlc...............$2.40 Div2..................$2.70 Div3..................$1.30 DivQuin.............$23.00 DivTrif...............$120.70 As you can see there are a total of 6 meetings involved and I would need to put in this parameter ( =bdgo) or (=gosf) these are the meeting tracks Hope this more enlightening Regards graham "Graham Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi this is a plea for some help. > I am enjoying a script that was written for me and its purpose is to > collect data from a web site and puts it into a access database table. > It works fine, however it is a sports info table but now I need to collect > the results of those races. > > I simply can't keep up putting the results in manually. > I dont care if it is a access table or a text file ( whichever is easiest) > there are only 12 fields to extract > The person who wrote the script is not available as he is engrossed in > another project which is talking all his time. > I hope someone has a little time on his hands willing to help me > Regards > Graham > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list