HOWTO: MLB Baseball scores from the command line!

[AaronMT]

I often want to check the baseball score without opening a browser. (That's right, it's too much work. And sometimes not appropriate at work, considering how much I check it.) So I wrote this very simple command line to fetch and parse the ESPN MLB scoreboard page.

Here's some sample output

AMERICAN LEAGUE - GAME 1
   Top 5th
   Toronto (10-12, 5-5 away)
   Tampa Bay (10-11, 6-7 home)
   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
   0 0 2 0 0
   0 0 1 1
   R H E
   2 5 0
   2 3 0
   GameCast | Box Score | RealTime [in.gif] | Watch
   Balls: Strikes: Outs:
   Pitching: Sonnanstine (TAM) 4.1 IP, 2 ER, 3 K
   Batting: Inglett (TOR) 0-0
   Pitch 4: ball 3

Here's the command line

Note you will need Lynx (a non graphical browser)

sudo apt-get install lynx

lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Toronto

Replace Toronto with your city.

[nerdman978]

that's amazing nice work!

[cardinals_fan]

Thanks for this - I just had to put quotes around "St. Louis"

[elmer_42]

That is awesome. I need to add that to Conky. Thanks, man!

EDIT: Hmm... how to auto-update it every few minutes... hmm...

[SuperSon!c]

can you do one for the nhl? :/

[AaronMT]

can you do one for the nhl? :/

Replace "MLB" with "NHL". You'll have to do a little playing around to get the output you like in the egrep parameter.

lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Colorado

You'll have to fix the output, but it should be easy,

[SuperSon!c]

you my friend, rock! thanks! atm i'm having problems getting anything from the repos, but will continue trying.

[AaronMT]

Glad it worked out for ya

[elmer_42]

Hello everybody! A very helpful guy in this thread helped me. The code I use for my MLB section is this (from .conkyrc):

${color 457ccc}MLB ${hr 2}$color
${color 457ccc}Boston Red Sox $color
${texeci 7200 lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Boston}
${color 457ccc}Florida Marlins $color
${texeci 7200 lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Florida}

and here is what it looks like:

[agim]

Great program! Works like a charm, except I cannot get it to work for the Yankees. I think the two word city is throwing it off. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.