Ticker

A Python web scraper built to display the score of current and recently finished NHL games. The score is scraped directly from the NHL website every 30 seconds.

Requirements

• Python 3.6⁺
  • python3 --version

^{(It actually works just as well with Python 2, you'd just need to remove the 3 from all the commands provided in (a) this README and (b) requirements.txt)}

Additional requirements can be installed with pip - there is a requirements.txt file provided that allows you to simply run pip3 install -r requirements.txt. Included in this file are the following packages:

• Requests
  • pip3 install requests
• Colorama
  • pip3 install colorama
• Pytz
  • pip3 install pytz

Usage

Once you've ensured that your system meets the requirements, open a terminal window and execute

python3 your/path/to/ticker.py

Data Source

• NHL livescore JSON:
  • http://live.nhle.com/GameData/RegularSeasonScoreboardv3.jsonp (old one)
  • https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/schedule (much richer "new" one, will move to this in future)

In future, I plan to support other leagues, likely starting with MLB:

• MLB livescore JSON:

  • http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2015/month_08/day_02/master_scoreboard.json

• Edit (2018 season):

  • Individual game boxscore: http://statsapi.mlb.com:80/api/v1/game/game_pk/boxscore
  • full list of MLB APIs: http://statsapi.mlb.com/docs/

License

Copyright 2016 John Freed and Stevie Howard.

MIT License