Original Blog Entry: PA lottery uses aspx file to present tables of draw history.

hypersoniq — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:57:34 GMT

Microsoft Active Server Pages, the technology used by the PA lottery to present 1 year of draw history for any of their games.

There are 2 main variables passed via query string parameters, the id, tells it which game to display, and year, so you can choose the year.

I can fetch a requested page by passing in variables for the task at hand.

For example, this is the full url to display the PA pick 3 evening results for 2025...

https://www.palottery.state.pa.us/Games/Print-Past-Winning-Numbers.aspx?id=2 year=2025 print=1

I forget exactly how I found it, it was originally buried somewhere on their results pages. Through experimentation, I found the following game ID codes...

1. Pick 3 Mid Day

2. Pick 3 Evening (the example above)

3. Pick 4 Mid Day

4. Pick 4 Evening

5. Pick 5 Mid Day

6. Pick 5 Evening

7. Treasure Hunt

8. Cash 5

11. Match 6

12. Power Ball

15. Mega Millions

27. Pick 2 Evening

31. Pick 2 Mid Day

35. Cash 4 Life

(There are codes for games that have ended like 10 for Mix Match and 14 for Super 7, but if the game ended.. why bother?)

By replacing the id value with a number from above and the year value desired, you can see any full calendar year of PA lottery game history.

The Pick 3 evening is the longest running PA game and goes back to 1977 !

In my build script, I loop each ID through the years for each game ID and create a csv file for each.

The update version that I plan on running once a week will go through ALL of the game IDs for the current year, updating all 14 games in one shot.

I am still stuck on 3 games... all have a bonus ball. Since the other 11 games all work, I am going to create a separate script that can handle bonus balls... working on that today... the idea is to only grab numeric data and only use the first 6 in the list, this will effectively capture all of the 3 games and ignore the power play and double draw data. Also will skip the megaplier pre $5 era.

Also note that if importing via spreadsheet, the date is in a text date format. I handle that conversion into an actual date type in Python, but it is also able to do this in a spreadsheet by using paste special and choosing unformatted text, then for the date column, select Date M/D/Y ... problem solved... text dates don't sort properly, particularly if mixed with standard dates!

So that is where I am at with the coding project, just thought I would share the URL I found to make gathering history easier for any other PA players out there.... [ More ]