PCSOLotto

PCSOLotto (Webscraper) is a Python program for webscraping lottery results from the PCSO website Can be be both used in CLI and embedded in a python program.

Installation

Use pip to install to your local machine.

pip install PCSOLotto-Webscraper

Or if you want the latest version, use git on your local machine to clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/lonewanderer27/PCSOLotto_Webscraper

Then you can copy ./src/PCSLotto/PCSOLotto.py file to your python project where you wanna use it with.

CLI

Results are displayed in a tabular form.

Simple Usage Examples

# display results today
# only works after 10PM or when PCSO has posted the results on the website.
./PCSOLotto.py -t

# display results yesterday
./PCSOLotto.py -y

# display results 3 days prior up to today
./PCSOLotto.py -z

# display results 3 days prior up to today AND export it to CSV file
./PCSOLotto.py -z -c lotto_results.csv

Note: Using -t --results_today, -y --results_yesterday, -z --results_default_pcso overrides the -s --start_date and -e --end_date

Tip: You can export the search results to CSV and or JSON.

For CSV, just append the -c --csv <csv_file_name>.csv
For JSON, append the -j --json <json_file_name>.json

Advanced Usage Examples

# display EZ2 results yesterday
./PCSOLotto.py -y --games 'EZ2'

# display EZ2, Suertres & 6Digit results yesterday
./PCSOLotto.py -y --games 'EZ2' 'Suertres' '6Digit'

# display Suertres 11AM Draw result yesterday
./PCSOLotto.py -y --games 'Suertres Lotto 11AM'

# display 6/55 & 6/49 results yesterday
./PCSOLotto.py -y --games '6/55' '6/49'

By default, jackpot prices are prefixed with ₱ sign, you can disable that by adding --peso_sign false argument

# display 6/55 & 6/49 results yesterday
# but with ₱ sign omitted
./PCSOLotto.py -y --games '6/55' '6/49' --peso_sign false

More Advanced Usage Examples

Use -s --start_date to define the start date and -e --end_date to define the end date

These arguments cannot be used together with -t --results_today, -y --results_yesterday, -z --results_default_pcso

# display results from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
# Note: the only accepted date format is YYYY/MM/DD
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10'

# you can also export to CSV and JSON
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10' -c results_csv.csv -j results_json.json

# display 6/58 results from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10' --games '6/58'

# display 6/58, 6/55 & 6/42 results
# from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10' --games '6/58' '6/55' '6/42'

# display results every Mon, Wed, Fri
# from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10' --days Mon Wed Fri

# display only EZ2 results every Mon, Wed, Fri
# from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
./PCSOLotto.py --start_date '2022/08/01' --end_date '2022/08/10' --days Mon Wed Fri --games 'EZ2'

See Table-of-Games for complete list of game aliases and how to filter time specific draws for EZ2 & Suertres.

CLI Options Reference

usage: PCSOLotto.py [-h] [-s START_DATE] [-e END_DATE] [-t] [-y] [-z] [-d [DAYS ...]] [-g [GAMES ...]] [-p PESO_SIGN] [-c CSV] [-j JSON]

CLI tool for web scraping lottery results from the PCSO website

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s START_DATE, --start_date START_DATE
                        date to start searching. Format: YYYY/MM/DD (default: None)
  -e END_DATE, --end_date END_DATE
                        date to end searching. Format: YYYY/MM/DD (default: None)
  -t, --results_today   retrieve lotto results today (default: False)
  -y, --results_yesterday
                        retrieve lotto results yesterday (default: False)
  -z, --results_default_pcso
                        retrieve lotto results from 3 days prior up to today (default: False)
  -d [DAYS ...], --days [DAYS ...]
                        days to select (default: None)
  -g [GAMES ...], --games [GAMES ...]
                        lotto games to search (default: None)
  -p PESO_SIGN, --peso_sign PESO_SIGN
                        to prefix a peso sign in the jackpot, or not (default: True)
  -c CSV, --csv CSV     csv file to output the results to (default: None)
  -j JSON, --json JSON  json file to output the results to (default: None)

API / Library

All methods return a dictionary, organized by keys under which the actual results are contained in.

Simple Usage Examples

from PCSOLotto import PCSOLotto
from pprint import pprint # for pretty printing of returned dictionary 

# initiate an object from the class
lotto = PCSOLotto()


# return results today
# only works 10PM onwards as that is when PCSO updates their website
pprint(lotto.results_today(), indent=2)


# return results yesterday
pprint(lotto.results_yesterday(), indent=2)


# return results for the past 3 days
# default selection on the PCSO website
pprint(lotto.results_latest(), indent=2)

Advanced Usage Examples

Methods results_today(), results_yesterday() and results_latest() all have an optional games parameter where you can customize what lottery games get returned.

To match a specific game, we have to use an alias or the whole name of the lottery game. Refer to Table-of-Games for these aliases.

from PCSOLotto import PCSOLotto
from pprint import pprint # for pretty printing of returned dictionary 

# initiate an object from the class
lotto = PCSOLotto()


# return EZ2 results yesterday
pprint(
    lotto.results_yesterday(
        games=['EZ2']),
    indent=2)


# return EZ2, Suertres & 6Digit results yesterday
pprint(
    lotto.results_yesterday(
        games=['EZ2', 'Suertres', '6Digit']),
    indent=2)


# return 6/55 & 6/49 results yesterday
pprint(
    lotto.results_yesterday(
        games=['6/55', '6/49']),
    indent=2)

And by default all of three methods we used prefix the jackpot price with ₱ sign, you can disable that by passing peso_sign=False parameter.

# return 6/55 & 6/49 results yesterday
# but with ₱ sign omitted
pprint(
    lotto.results_yesterday(
        games=['6/55', '6/49'], 
        peso_sign=False),
    indent=2)

More Advanced Usage Examples

Methods described in Simple & Advanced Usage all use a method underneath called results() which takes five parameters that are described in the API-Reference

You can use this method directly if you want to customize the results date.

from PCSOLotto import PCSOLotto
from pprint import pprint # for pretty printing of returned dictionary 

# initiate an object from the class
lotto = PCSOLotto()


# Search for results from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
# Note: the only accepted date format is YYYY/MM/DD
pprint(
    lotto.results(
        start_date='2022/08/01', 
        end_date='2022/08/10'),
    indent=2
)


# Search for 6/58 results from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
pprint(
    lotto.results(
        start_date='2022/08/01', 
        end_date='2022/08/10', 
        games=['6/58']),
    indent=2
)


# Search for 6/58, 6/55 & 6/42 results
# from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
pprint(
    lotto.results(
        start_date='2022/08/01', 
        end_date='2022/08/10', 
        games=['6/58', '6/55', '6/42']),
    indent=2
)


# Search for results every Mon, Wed, Fri
# from Aug 1 2022 to Aug 10 2022
pprint(
    lotto.results(
        start_date='2022/08/01', 
        end_date='2022/08/10', 
        days=['Mon', 'Wed', 'Fri']),
    indent=2
)

API-Reference

Parameter	Type	Format	Description
start_date	string	YYYY/MM/DD	Required. date to start searching
end_date	string	YYYY/MM/DD	Required. date to end searching
days	list(string)	['Sun', 'Mon'] ...	Optional. days to select
games	list(string)	['EZ2', 'Suetres'] ...	Optional. games to select
peso_sign	bool	True or False	Optional. to prefix a peso sign in the jackpot, or not

Table-of-Games

Tip: Using "3D" alone will match all draws that happen in 11AM, 4PM & 9PM
So if you only want the 4PM draw, use "3D Lotto 4PM" instead.

Additionally, PCSO changes the name of the games on their website, causing this program to fail.
So if this program does not return any data, please visit and look for the "Lotto Game" column to see the new games name, then try again.

Alias	Game Full Name
6/58	Ultra Lotto 6/58
6/55	Grand Lotto 6/55
6/49	Superlotto 6/49
6/45	Megalotto 6/45
6/42	Lotto 6/42
6D	6D Lotto
4D	4D Lotto
3D	3D Lotto
3D Lotto 11AM	3D Lotto 11AM
3D Lotto 4PM	3D Lotto 4PM
3D Lotto 9PM	3D Lotto 9PM
2D	2D Lotto
2D Lotto 11AM	EZ2 Lotto 11AM
2D Lotto 4PM	EZ2 Lotto 4PM
2D Lotto 9PM	EZ2 Lotto 9PM