DonBest.com sucks

DonBest.com sucks Damn !@#$$*#@'s went ahead and revamped their site. Gotta lotta code I have to update. Wish I had some easy, dependable XML feed to rely on.

What exactly did they do in which sports? pm me if you'd rather

I haven't checked everything yet, but their free odds page is now segregated into free odds pages for each sport. https://donbest.com/sports/ncaaf/odds.html No biggie there. The old odds page was getting unwieldy. No, its the internal html used on the page to display the rows and columns of odds. This has completely changed, and on first glance the new regex I have to build is gonna be a doozy. Maybe it won't be as bad as it looks, but I'm really not a happy camper. Then after our first cfb game of the week tonight is over, I get to see if the boxscore and line movement summary pages are different too. The latter will definitely be different. Its possible though that the boxscore stuff might not change that much. Maybe. Looks like they've already thrown the old scores pages down the memory hole. Pigs.

Maybe the line summary and box pages won't be so bad. I'm looking further at this..... the url structure has changed, and there is advertising cruft that needs to be peeled away, but other than that it looks similar to the old versions. But on a second look the main odds page is worse than I thought. Right now it looks scarfing up a game's total will require a 2nd regex. Wankers.

Have you looked into SportsOptions? We have the discount going with them for LVASports members. Saving is more than monthly fee here.

sportsoptions rules! :) and the team they have has been really easy to work with since I started with them last year

Thanks for the heads up Anthony. What I'm really using DB for in this instance is handicapping not shopping. On Sundays I need to feed my software the rotation numbers for the upcoming week, then the lines using the rotation numbers. And of course the boxes from Saturday's action. Then I can get the capping process started. I've got it automated enough that a good tech & stat look on the next week's card is ready to go by midway thru the 1st Q of the Sunday night NFL game. All from the *free* DB pages.

I've been told that the new setup is actually easier to program with/for. But obviously, some things need to be re-done.

[QUOTE=Tiresias;6520]Damn !@#$$*#@'s went ahead and revamped their site. Gotta lotta code I have to update. Wish I had some easy, dependable XML feed to rely on.[/QUOTE] I hear you. In the mean time, check out: old.donbest.com No guarantees about how long they keep this around, but while you're making the transition, it can be handy. So, which king is ignoring your advice in this play?

Not just the king. Everybody.