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freelancer.com 🟢 2026-05-09

🔹 [Target] Update Python Racing Scraper
👤 Client: 🇦🇺 Miners Rest, Australia Member since 2014-03-15
💰 Price: $71 Average bid
🚩 Problem: Restore a Python scraper to collect race results and future fields from a racing site with a new GUI.
📦 Existing: [Stack] Legacy Python script, .exe; [Format] CSV/TXT output as per original version; [Method] No login required; [Target] Public racing site

Specifications:

[UI/UX] Lightweight GUI for date selection (single or range) and future date download using Tkinter or PySimpleGUI
[Stack] Python, PyInstaller, BeautifulSoup, requests, pandas
[Format] Preserve original CSV/TXT layout; [Method] No login required

Workflow:

Analyze the current structure of the racing site to identify changes and locate data.
Update the scraper using BeautifulSoup and requests to handle new page structures.
Implement a GUI with Tkinter or PySimpleGUI for date selection and future date download.
Test the updated script on multiple dates, ensuring output matches original format byte-for-byte.
Package the Python source (.py) and create a .exe file using PyInstaller.