for getting live cricket scores

Author: shashi

cricinfo/README.md

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+cricinfo
+========
+
+View live cricket scores via espncricinfo in terminal.
+
+Project outline:
+----------------
+
+1. Scrap the live page to get the info for current international matches
+2. Now, Scrap
+* matches results for the selected series
+* future schedule for the selected series
+3. Scrap scorecard page
+4. Ask user to save the data to a file or not
+5. continue

cricinfo/cricinfo.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+# Later when complexity will arise we will use option parser
+# import argparse
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+import requests
+
+htmlclient = {
+"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5"
+}
+urilist = []
+scorecards = []
+espnurl = "http://www.espncricinfo.com"
+voice = {
+    "0":"Seems you are good @English. Use the index number.",
+    "1":"Network Error. Try again later.",
+    "2":""
+}
+
+def prompt():
+    '''
+    Returns response from the user
+    '''
+    try:
+        return int(raw_input("Select series: "))
+    except ValueError:
+        print voice["0"]
+        scrapresults(prompt())
+
+def prompt1():
+    '''
+    Returns response from the user
+    '''
+    try:
+        return int(raw_input("Enter the Scorecard index to view full scorecard: "))
+    except ValueError:
+        print voice["0"]
+        scrap_scorecard(prompt1())
+
+def scrapresults(choice):
+    try:
+        global htmlclient, urilist, espnurl, scorecards
+        url = espnurl + urilist[choice-1].replace("content/current/", "engine/")
+        response = requests.get(url, headers=htmlclient)
+
+        # Scraping Results page for the selected series
+        if response.status_code==200:
+            soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text)
+            print soup.title.text + "\n"
+
+            # More work it to be done in this loop as fetch scorecards, man of the match
+            for matchestable in soup.findAll("div", attrs={"class":"div630Pad"}):
+                scores = [ score.text for score in matchestable.findAll("p", attrs={"class":"potMatchText mat_scores"}) ]
+                statuses = [ status.text for status in matchestable.findAll("p", attrs={"class":"potMatchText mat_status"}) ]
+                matches = [ matches.text for matches in matchestable.findAll("p", attrs={"class":"potMatchHeading"}) ]
+                scorecards = [ tempo.a.get("href") for tempo in matchestable.findAll("span", attrs={"class":"potMatchLink"})]
+                
+            for num, (score, status, match) in enumerate(zip(scores, statuses, matches)):
+                if not score:
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    print match
+                    print score
+                    print status
+                    print "Scorecard index: ", num+1, "\n"
+            return
+        else:
+            print voice["1"]
+    except IndexError:
+        print "Use the index number left side. Try again."
+        scrapresults(prompt())
+    except TypeError:
+        # Too many function call creating this.
+        # 
+        #Traceback (most recent call last):
+        #  File "cricinfo.py", line 113, in <module>
+        #    main()
+        #  File "cricinfo.py", line 108, in main
+        #    scrapresults(prompt())
+        #  File "cricinfo.py", line 29, in prompt
+        #   scrapresults(prompt())
+        # File "cricinfo.py", line 29, in prompt
+        #  scrapresults(prompt())
+        #  File "cricinfo.py", line 48, in scrapresults
+        #   url = espnurl + urilist[choice-1].replace("content/current/", "engine/")
+        #TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'int'
+        pass
+
+def scrap_scorecard(choice):
+    try:
+        global scorecards
+        url = espnurl + scorecards[choice-1]
+
+        print url
+    except IndexError:
+        print "Use Scorecard index. Try again."
+        scrap_scorecard(prompt1())
+    except TypeError:
+        # Same as above
+        pass
+
+def main():
+    global htmlclient, urilist, espnurl
+    url = espnurl + "/ci/engine/match/scores/live.html"
+    response = requests.get(url, headers=htmlclient)
+    
+    # Scraping Live matches page and getting the info for current international series as a list
+    if response.status_code==200:
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text)
+        for mainNav in soup.findAll("div", attrs={"id":"mainNav"}):
+            for table in mainNav.findAll("table", attrs={"width":"270", "border":"0", "cellspacing":"0", "cellpadding":"0"}):
+                urilist = [ uri.get("href") for uri in table.findAll("a") ]
+    else:
+        print voice["1"]
+
+    # Removing unnecessary 'ci' entry from list
+    del urilist[-1]
+
+    # View the series to user for selection
+    for num, url in enumerate(urilist):
+        print num+1, url.split("/")[1]
+
+    scrapresults(prompt())
+    scrap_scorecard(prompt1())
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    try:
+        main()
+    except (KeyboardInterrupt, EOFError):
+        sys.exit(0)
+# http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/654033.html