What's New On These Pages: May 2021

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• Wednesday 26th May
  Yep, it happened again - the official Swiss Euro Millions site had the latest draw date but with the previous draw's numbers on the page, causing me to scrape them and display the wrong numbers again (which I've corrected). I have disabled parsing the Swiss site's winning numbers for all future draws now it's proved unreliable twice in the same month.

• Tuesday 18th May
  For a while tonight, the official Swiss Euro Millions site had today's date on its results page while showing the previous draw's numbers on that page! My scraping code picked this up, so this site displayed the previous draw's numbers tonight, which is very annoying (and I can't remember an official site ever doing this before - if it happens again with the Swiss site, I will exclude scraping the winning numbers from that site). An eagle-eyed visitor e-mailed me about it and I corrected the winning numbers.

• Saturday 1st May
  Fixed various Euro Millions official site results scraping issues, the biggest of which were detecting the jackpot prize amount in Euros (I get that from the Irish official site, but had an incorrect URL to grab that) and also marking no countries as having won when the UK official site results were in and there was no "Jackpot winning ticket" string on the results page.

  The various fixes will not only allow the full results to be shown as soon as they're available (they'd been failing to show at all automatically in the last few weeks), but it may also mean slightly faster displays of the Euro Millions winning numbers (because one of the fixes was to correct the winning numbers scraping from a non-UK official site).

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