Standard Programmatic Format for Hand Histories
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 7
Hi there!
I play on Nitrogen Poker, a bitcoin poker site. Overall, the site is perfect for me. It has one major, major downside though: no hand export.
However, it does have a hand history. I'm considering writing a screen scraping program that creates a hand history export from their hand history page, going through each page (one hand) individually until a complete history is created, and running it daily to catch up on the new hands. Haven't figured out all the details, but my question and blocker is...
Is there a "standard" for hand history formats, so that when I create mine, it will import cleanly in to PokerTracker or HEM? I could guess at a format from hand histories I have from other sites, but it would be great to have a true standard to work from.
Let me know if anybody knows of anything. If anybody here plays on Nitrogen and is interested in what I'm creating, let me know that too and I'll share it with you when I'm done. I've pinged Nitro support on a hand export feature, and they've acknowledged it's a good idea, but I'm not holding my breath.
Cheers!
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 7
Well, it's becoming pretty clear to me that there *isn't* a dedicated standard for this. In that case, if anybody knows, what's an appropriate standard for HEM2?
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 749
I think most converters use Pokerstars format but it might be easier to code something that converts to a format that is xml (some sites use such a format), as long as that site is supported by hm2 and will probably continue to be supported.
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 7
Shame that there probably aren't any sites that use json - I know it best. Could convert from it to XML pretty easily I suppose. But good tip. Text isn't that hard though. I'll likely use Pokerstars I think.
Thanks for your help! I'll post here and elsewhere when it's completed. PM me if any of you play on Nitro and want to be notified.
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 24
