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"How do I use the Web Scraping Feature?"
Lotto Sorcerer v7 offers a wealth of tools to keep your lottery drawing database up-to-date. One of these tools is the powerful web scraping feature. Instead of visiting a web page and manually typing in the latest drawing results, you can use this feature (if the data is presented in a text format).
Although this procedure is presented in several steps, with practice, you will find that this procedure is quite intuitive, and can be performed quite easily, with a level of accuracy that far exceeds manually entering the data.
Step One of Five: Select the lottery you want to update:
We need to update the Indiana Quick Draw lottery for November 17, 2011. So we select "Indiana Quick Draw" from the popup menu at the top of the window, then click on "November 17, 2011" in the Calendar.
Step Two of Five: Highlight the Drawing Data that you want to Input:
In this example, we go to the website where the drawing results are displayed. We highlight the drawing (by clicking and dragging through the data), as shown.
Step Three of Five: Copy the data to your System Clipboard:
Choose your web browser's menu item "Edit > Copy" to copy what you have selected (in step #2) to your System Clipboard.
Step Four of Five: Click the "Scrape" button in Lotto Sorcerer:
Clicking the "Scrape" button will parse the text data in your System Clipboard into the appropriate boxes.
Step Five of Five: Click the "Enter" button to enter the data into Lotto Sorcerer:
Click the "Enter" button to enter the data into the database...
...and the data is successfully entered!
Done!
Notes
- Only text data can be utilized in this fashion. Lottery drawings that are presented as images will not work.
- Any non-numeric character(s) separating the drawing numbers will be treated as a delimiter.
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