Resultdownloader

Author

Dominik Rappaport, dominik@rappaport.at

Synopsis

This tool facilitates the download of competition results from the RaceTimePro website. As the platform does not provide a native CSV export option, this script addresses that limitation.

Disclaimer

It should be noted that substantial portions of this script were generated using ChatGPT, with only minor manual adjustments required.

Installation

The resultdownloader is distributed as a Python package. Several installation methods are available.

Using pip

Executing pip installs the package in your current Python environment. Global installation was once possible, but modern Linux distributions no longer permit this approach.

pip install resultdownloader

Using pipx or uv

Both pipx and uv enable global tool installation. The package can be installed as follows:

pipx install resultdownloader

or

uv tools install resultdownloader

Usage

Single URL Mode

Download results from a single competition by providing a URL and output filename:

resultdownloader --url "URL" --output FILE

Example:

resultdownloader --url "https://events.racetime.pro/en/event/1022/competition/6422/results" --output race_results.csv

URL list mode

Download results from multiple competitions by providing a text file containing one URL per line:

resultdownloader --urllist FILE

Example:

resultdownloader --urllist racelist.txt

In this mode, output files are automatically named as race_EVENT.csv based on the event IDs extracted from each URL.