# World Turf Pulse (`0xgollum/world-turf-pulse`) Actor

Tracks live horse-racing win odds across nine countries (Japan, France, UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, Germany, South Africa, New Zealand) for races not yet off, and flags implied-probability steamers and drifters between runs. International sibling of Horse Racing Pulse.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/0xgollum/world-turf-pulse.md
- **Developed by:** [0xGollum](https://apify.com/0xgollum) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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```bash
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```

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````bash
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```bash

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# README

## World Turf Pulse 🌏🐎

**Horse Racing Pulse, gone international. Nine markets live: Japan, France, UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, Germany, South Africa, New Zealand.**

Horse Racing Pulse tracks steamers and drifters on French PMU odds. That's one country. This actor brings the same signal to the world's biggest racing markets, all in one place — Horse Racing Pulse (France) stays untouched and independently priced for its existing client.

### What you get

Two row types:

- **Snapshot** — current win odds + implied probability for every horse in every tracked race
- **Signal** — a named, fired condition:

| Signal | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| `steamer` | A horse's implied probability jumped between runs — money coming in fast, price shortening |
| `drifter` | A horse's implied probability faded between runs — confidence draining, price lengthening |

### Sources (public, no API key required in the ToS sense, no proxy, no headless browser)

| Market | Source | Notes |
|--------|--------|-------|
| 🇯🇵 Japan (JRA) | netkeiba.com | Race cards server-rendered; win odds via a key-less JSON endpoint |
| 🇫🇷 France (PMU) | online.turfinfo.api.pmu.fr | Official public PMU JSON API (same source as Horse Racing Pulse) |
| 🇬🇧 UK / 🇮🇪 Ireland | sportinglife.com | Multi-bookmaker odds embedded in server-rendered race pages |
| 🇺🇸 USA | sportinglife.com | Same source as UK/IE — sidesteps Equibase's bot-wall entirely |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | racing.com | Public AWS AppSync GraphQL API (key ships in the site's own client config), fixed odds from 4 bookmakers |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | racing-odds.com | Bookmaker-odds-comparison site aggregating international racing; decimal odds ship inline (`data-odds-dec`) |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | racing-odds.com | Same source as Germany |
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | racing-odds.com | Same source as Germany; official TAB NZ returns HTTP 403 (likely geo-restricted) |

No login, no paid proxy, no browser automation for any of the nine — all confirmed by inspecting each site's real network calls or embedded config, and covered by offline tests (`tests/test_signals.py`, `tests/test_sources_ro.py`) run against real captured fixtures.

Only races not yet off are scanned, soonest-starting first per market. Races outside the pre-race odds window (odds not published yet) are skipped automatically — Germany/South Africa/New Zealand race less often than the other six, so a given run may return zero rows for one of them if nothing's currently in its odds window; that's expected, not an error.

**Not included: Hong Kong (HKJC), South Korea (KRA).**
- **Hong Kong**: HKJC's GraphQL API returns a `WHITELIST_ERROR` even with correct Origin/Referer headers, requiring a signed token generated client-side. racing-odds.com also lists Hong Kong in its nav — worth a follow-up check on a live HK raceday (Wed/Sat/Sun) before writing off this route.
- **South Korea**: KRA's public race-card pages (race.kra.co.kr) are not anti-bot-blocked and are scrapable, but carry no odds field anywhere — Korea appears not to publish betting odds on its public site.

### Use cases

- **Punters** — spot steamers before the crowd, avoid drifters
- **Value bettors** — price movement is a core tell for market confidence shifts
- **Content & tipster sites** — power previews with live movement data
- **Bots & automations** — feed clean signals into your own alerting pipeline

### Input (all optional)

| Field | Default | Description |
|-------|---------|--------------|
| `markets` | all nine | Which racing markets to include in this run |
| `max_races` | `15` | How many soonest-starting upcoming races to scan per run, per market |
| `movement_threshold_pct` | `5` | Minimum implied-probability change (percentage points) between runs to fire a signal |
| `only_signals` | `false` | Skip snapshots, only push steamer/drifter rows |

### Output

```json
{
  "type": "signal",
  "signal": "steamer",
  "venue": "Tokyo",
  "race_id": "202605010111",
  "race_num": "11",
  "race_name": "TOKYO YUSHUN",
  "horse_num": 3,
  "horse_name": "SAMPLE HORSE",
  "prob_change_pct": 6.8,
  "current_cote": 5.2,
  "current_prob_pct": 19.2,
  "previous_prob_pct": 12.4,
  "message": "SAMPLE HORSE (#3) at Tokyo R11 (TOKYO YUSHUN): odds shortened to 5.2 (12.4% -> 19.2% implied) — money coming in fast."
}
````

### Pricing

**Pay per result:** **$0.005 per row** (snapshots + signals). Nine countries and a proprietary steamer/drifter signal, still cheaper than raw-data-only competitors in this space.

### Tips

- **Schedule it** every 10–15 min to catch steam as it builds toward post time; movement between two runs is what triggers a signal, so it needs a persistent schedule (not one-off runs) to be useful.
- Lower `movement_threshold_pct` for more sensitivity (more signals, more noise) or raise it to only catch big moves.
- Odds only open in a pre-race window — early scans of the day may return few or no rows for a given market until that window opens.
- Narrow `markets` to just the ones you care about to cut result volume (and cost) if you don't need all nine.

### Roadmap

Nine markets live. Hong Kong is the next candidate, blocked for now on a signed-token whitelist (see Sources above) — revisit if worth the reverse-engineering time.

***

*⚠️ Not betting advice. Odds movement reflects market activity, not a guaranteed outcome. This actor surfaces public odds data — it does not place bets or guarantee profit.*

# Actor input Schema

## `markets` (type: `array`):

Which racing markets to include in this run.

## `max_races` (type: `integer`):

How many soonest-starting races (not yet off) to scan per run, per market.

## `movement_threshold_pct` (type: `number`):

Minimum implied-probability change (in percentage points) between runs to fire a steamer/drifter signal. Default 5.

## `only_signals` (type: `boolean`):

If true, skip snapshot rows and only push steamer/drifter signal rows.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "markets": [
    "JP",
    "FR",
    "UK",
    "IE",
    "US",
    "AU",
    "DE",
    "ZA",
    "NZ"
  ],
  "max_races": 15,
  "movement_threshold_pct": 5,
  "only_signals": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("0xgollum/world-turf-pulse").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("0xgollum/world-turf-pulse").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call 0xgollum/world-turf-pulse --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=0xgollum/world-turf-pulse",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "info": {
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        "description": "Tracks live horse-racing win odds across nine countries (Japan, France, UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, Germany, South Africa, New Zealand) for races not yet off, and flags implied-probability steamers and drifters between runs. International sibling of Horse Racing Pulse.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "LUvAHANj6TYPc7Ybw"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/0xgollum~world-turf-pulse/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-0xgollum-world-turf-pulse",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
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                                "schema": {
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                            }
                        }
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                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/0xgollum~world-turf-pulse/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-0xgollum-world-turf-pulse",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "markets": {
                        "title": "Markets to scan",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Which racing markets to include in this run.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": [
                                "JP",
                                "FR",
                                "UK",
                                "IE",
                                "US",
                                "AU",
                                "DE",
                                "ZA",
                                "NZ"
                            ],
                            "enumTitles": [
                                "Japan (JRA)",
                                "France (PMU)",
                                "United Kingdom",
                                "Ireland",
                                "USA",
                                "Australia",
                                "Germany",
                                "South Africa",
                                "New Zealand"
                            ]
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "JP",
                            "FR",
                            "UK",
                            "IE",
                            "US",
                            "AU",
                            "DE",
                            "ZA",
                            "NZ"
                        ]
                    },
                    "max_races": {
                        "title": "Max upcoming races per market",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "How many soonest-starting races (not yet off) to scan per run, per market.",
                        "default": 15
                    },
                    "movement_threshold_pct": {
                        "title": "Movement threshold (percentage points)",
                        "type": "number",
                        "description": "Minimum implied-probability change (in percentage points) between runs to fire a steamer/drifter signal. Default 5.",
                        "default": 5
                    },
                    "only_signals": {
                        "title": "Only output signals",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If true, skip snapshot rows and only push steamer/drifter signal rows.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
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                            },
                            "actId": {
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                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
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                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "usage": {
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                                "properties": {
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    }
}
```
