HOWTO: MLB Baseball scores from the command line!

**Brunellus** · April 26th, 2008

holy cow this is GREAT.

Try escaping a two word city with a backslash

New\ York

(Look: Ubuntu is so helpful we even help Yankees fans!

)

**dvdgorila** · April 26th, 2008

Actually you can use quotes like so

Code:

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

I have it set up that way. GO YANK!

**cardinals_fan** · April 26th, 2008

I'm really enjoying this in my Conky - can you guess which team I check?

**Kingsley** · April 26th, 2008

Originally Posted by cardinals_fan

I'm really enjoying this in my Conky - can you guess which team I check?

The Chicago Cubs? I'm just guessing here.

**cardinals_fan** · April 26th, 2008

Originally Posted by Kingsley

The Chicago Cubs? I'm just guessing here.

I will smite your evil soul!

I realized that for actual game viewing, Conky isn't much use - unless I have it update obscenely often. So, I have used the following .conkyrc segment to tell me who's playing, and if I'm interested, I can check the main action manually.

Code:

${offset 12}${voffset 80}${color c90006}${font HeldustryFTVBasic Demi:size=10}St. Louis Cardinals
${voffset 10}${color 9d9d9d}${font HeldustryFTVBasic Demi:size=10}${texeci 3600 scores | grep -B 1 "home"}

Where 'scores' is an alias for:

Code:

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

Screenshot attached:

**drworm01** · May 2nd, 2008

Does anyone have a link to a teams-to-code translator or key? I'm trying to get the Houston Astros to work, but no luck. "Texas" pulls up the Rangers and "Houston" grabs nothing. This is really neat code though. Thanks for posting it.

**cardinals_fan** · May 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by drworm01

Does anyone have a link to a teams-to-code translator or key? I'm trying to get the Houston Astros to work, but no luck. "Texas" pulls up the Rangers and "Houston" grabs nothing. This is really neat code though. Thanks for posting it.

Everything has stopped working for the moment - I'll mess about with the code to see if I can fix it.

Never mind, my wireless had a hiccup

**jetsam** · May 2nd, 2008

Houston's just not playing today. "Houston" works for yesterday if you put the date code in the URL:

Code:

lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard?date=20080430 | egrep -i -A12 -B2 'Houston'

I figured this out by just looking at the actual website in Firefox:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard

That's no fun, though.

**drworm01** · May 2nd, 2008

Originally Posted by jetsam

Houston's just not playing today. "Houston" works for yesterday if you put the date code in the URL:

Code:

lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard?date=20080430 | egrep -i -A12 -B2 'Houston'

I figured this out by just looking at the actual website in Firefox:
http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard

That's no fun, though.

Thanks. I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't sure if the code grabbed the current game or just the most recent. That's good to know.

**waldorsockbat** · May 4th, 2008

Let me start by saying thanks for the great work on this,It's nice to see some sports fans here.I need a little help with this. In the screen shot you can see that the score stops at the sixth inning for the home team,everything is fine until the 8th inning and it reverts to this for the home teams only.I have googled for the code help but can't find anything to fix it.