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Unread 26-04-2014, 11:12
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Re: FRC Spyder 2014?

As a preemptive warning, FIRST's data feeds are broken and this is why FRC Spyder isn't updating. Someone at FIRST appears to be editing their result HTML pages using Microsoft Word (!) and this produces a different HTML structure than their normal pages. Since FIRST does not provide the data in a clean API format, we're forced to scrape the data from their result pages and parse it. When they publish data using Microsoft Word, Word changes the layout of the HTML which makes it incompatible with our data parsers.

Unfortunately we are extremely busy supporting the VEX Robotics World Championship and don't have time to tweak our data parsers to deal with the changes FIRST has made.

Maybe someday FIRST will get this right and provide the data in a way more suited for app consumption.
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