Germany Crawler - HVT Harness

Last reviewed: 2026-08-08 AEST

Identity and scope

• Source ID: de_hvt_harness
• Discipline: Harness (H)
• Racing code / ISO country: GER / DE
• Adapter: src/formcrawler/sources/de/hvt.py
• Base site: https://www.hvtonline.de/

Routes and operation

• Monthly calendar: https://www.hvtonline.de/monatstermine/YYYYMM/
• Complete starter day: /{track}/starter/YYYYMMDD/
• Complete result day: /{track}/rennbericht/YYYYMMDD/

python scripts\formcrawler.py capture-date-range --source de_hvt_harness --start YYYY-MM-DD --end YYYY-MM-DD --use-racingandsports-proxy

Direct public GETs presented a redirect challenge. The approved Racing and Sports public-GET proxy is therefore used; authentication, CAPTCHA, and access controls are not bypassed. Starter and race-report pages contain the whole meeting day, so one page per phase is complete.

Supplementary and breeding information

• Monthly race reports
• Result pages link videos, finish photographs, and official PDFs.

Cards expose sire, dam, country suffix/breeder text, and age from which the year can be derived. No stable standalone public horse-detail URL was found.

Storage and verification

Artifacts use FormCrawler/h-artifacts/<year>/GER/de_hvt_harness/; handoffs use FormParser/inbox/H/<year>/GER/de_hvt_harness/.

The complete 2026-06-04 München-Daglfing test captured starter and result pages through the approved proxy: two HTTP 200 artifacts, 193,400 bytes, a 22.838-second request gap, zero retries/content failures, and matching raw lengths, hashes, metadata, and handoffs.

Limitations

• The adapter covers regular-track patterns. Regional-track routes remain documented but not generalized.
• capture-discovered is not appropriate for an already-complete day page with no child links; use direct capture or calendar discovery.

Module changelog

• 2026-08-08: Implemented monthly discovery and complete starter/result day capture through the approved proxy; full-day integrity test passed.