CAPTCHA-free Entry?

[GoSimon]

my programme needs Entry data. i can get them from DRF, Equibase or Brisnet.

http://www1.drf.com/static/indexMenus/eindex.html
http://www.equibase.com/static/entry/index.html
http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/instant.cgi?type=int

however, they all have CAPTCHA after a few consecutive access, so i cannot automate the race population process. is there a CAPTCHA-free Entry data anywhere on the Internet???

[serp]

They put those captchas up there to prevent just what you are doing :P
Changing your User-Agent string will get around it but I would suggest you find something more legit.

http://www.briswatch.com/cgi-bin/intoday_kym.cgi
This might get what you need without trickery.

[GoSimon]

They put those captchas up there to prevent just what you are doing :P
Changing your User-Agent string will get around it but I would suggest you find something more legit.

http://www.briswatch.com/cgi-bin/intoday_kym.cgi
This might get what you need without trickery.

oh, i had thought that they put those CAPTCHAs up to prevent denial-of-service attacks, which i am certainly not doing with my 10-20 accesses per day.

anyway, i managed to dynamically change the User-Agent string to get around it after a few weeks of struggle, so i am happy. thank you for your tip, serp!

[DJofSD]

I don't understand how a change to a value associate with the user agent string will get around CAPTCHA. Does the server maintain a count of the number of times a user agent string is provided?