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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
Does anyone know how Pat is doing the frclinks redirects to hit the right USFIRST pages?
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Pat does. The tpid's seem to be constant per team per year (but are different for the same team in different seasons). I have a database of team->tpid links. If a team is not in the database, Frclinks scrapes the 2009 team list looking for it, and stores any other previously unknown results at the same time (to account for a constantly-expanding list during registration). So once FIRST starts keeping records for 2010, another scraping will likely occur.