Scoreboard/standings ticker

[pylon]

I think it would be neat, if during the game, you had a little scoreboard kinda where the season countdown timer is, with maybe even a game feed, kinda like theScore mobile app.

I don't know if there is some sort of plugin that could do that, but a lot of these iPhone/Android apps are getting their data somewhere. I think having the division/conference/league standings in that spot would be a neat feature too. They just kindaflip/scroll on a timed loop or something. When the games is not on.

If one or both happens, I will make a donation to the site.

[photon]

Yeah I've looked into it every so often, and can never find one that works. Either it's too big or costs big $$ or something.

At one point I was even going to write my own, but couldn't even find a free source for the data that's in an easily consumable format, all the ones I found cost big $$.

But it's a new year, maybe there's something out there this year.

[fredr123]

http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/scores/nhl

wget, screen scrape, regular expressions, cron jobs... It's that easy!

[photon]

Sweet, let me know when its done

ETA: Plus screen scraping usually violates the ToS for most websites.

[photon]

Just doing a search and I found this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/mpiii/nhl

Someone want to write a php file that reads that feed and creates an HTML fragment to display? One that would cache the results and only get new ones every 5 minutes (so we don't get banned by feedburner)?

[photon]

So with that feed I found it ended up being pretty easy to write a file to parse it and display the info.

Unfortunately I can't change what timezone it's displayed in.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by photon

So with that feed I found it ended up being pretty easy to write a file to parse it and display the info.

Unfortunately I can't change what timezone it's displayed in.

Nicely done! I definitely like the addition.

I also like the old NHL logo USA Today still uses.

[pylon]

Sweet! I will keep my word, and fire off a donation this weekend.

[photon]

Lol I never thought about when there was lots of games, I might have to scroll it, or at least put it in a expandable box or something.

[KevanGuy]

Hey pho, can you set it so when you click a game it opens in a new window?

[Mango]

Looks great!

[photon]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Hey pho, can you set it so when you click a game it opens in a new window?

Good idea, should be fixed the next time it goes and gets the info (it updates every 5 minutes).

[KevanGuy]

Works now, thanks pho.

[Dion_Iggy_Kipper!!!]

Thats awesome!! Thanks Photon!!

[Dion]

Great work, Photon!

[puckluck]

Great idea Pylon, and thanks Photon. Makes it much easier to check the scores than to open a new page.

[Boblobla]

me likey. Good work team.

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by photon

Sweet, let me know when its done

ETA: Plus screen scraping usually violates the ToS for most websites.

Looks good, photon. Nice jorb!

I was going to say the mpiii feed probably violates the ToS for ESPN's Bottomline application but I wasn't able to find the ToS anywhere. It doesn't ask you to agree to anything before installation either so that's nice.

[photon]

Yeah, it could mean that the mpiii feed will up and disappear someday, so I guess we'll enjoy it while we can. And it's on feedburner so I'm less worried about some kind of legal action.

And I made it so that it only requests the feed once every 5 minutes (though it does come from the CP server), I could have done it so the request came from the browser's computer, but that would have added hundreds of thousands of hits to the feed a day, and that's more likely to get noticed.

[Dion_Iggy_Kipper!!!]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but right now it says that the Phoenix/Toronto game ended in the 2nd Ot, when it was the shootout. I don't know if you can change this, it really doesn't matter, just something I've never noticed before.