Open epeeme opened 4 years ago
Not EFC, but missing BRC from 2009 - http://britishfencing.com/uploads/files/2743_welshcadetbscepee2009opencadetmensepee.html
http://www.mask-sport.com/ now has some historical data
The old FIE site - https://web.archive.org/web/20080511115006/http://www.fie.ch/
OK, so the key to success seems to be in extracting all of these https://web.archive.org/web/20100420014610/http://fie.ch/Competitions/ResultsList.aspx?Key=503D59A8157B2687B8C4CE2CAB517168 links with the different key values. They are all the JWC and EFC events that are no longer on the current official FIE site.
So here it is, the method of extracting all the epee results from the old fie site :-)
The JSON data can be pulled from here - this is the call archive.org uses to generate its datatables output.
From this I can extract manually just the URLs we are interested in, which in this case it's just those that contain : Competitions/ResultsList.aspx?
Having narrowed that down, I can use the Wayback Availability JSON API to make a call which will give us an extact URL to call
{
archived_snapshots: {
closest: {
available: true,
url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20140527215548/http://www.fie.ch/Competitions/ResultsList.aspx?Key=007DB732C50F5AC4203A39A208FD4BC",
timestamp: "20140527215548",
status: "200"
}
},
url: "www.fie.ch/Competitions/ResultsList.aspx?Key=007DB732C50F5AC4203A39A208FD4BC"
}
Using archived_snapshots.closest.url I can pull the source, parse the code for <span id="labWeaponDat" class="ListText">Epee</span>
, which
will identify if that URL is of interest, and then extract all the remaining data from the Table4 block.
Start to track down and import data between 2005 & 2010 based on Rodneys archive of what was a selected cadet event. Non selected events should also be found but will need to compile a list somehow of all seasons - possibly from the waybackmachine archives of the EFC site.