Linux Sports Ticker

[abhiroopb]

I'm looking for a simple linux sports ticker with the following sports:

Cricket
Football (Soccer)
Formula 1

Basically I just want it to display current (preferably live) scores somewhere on my desktop. It can be an app, widget, or even a conky add-on. I have been unable to find anything.

Please help!

[Marflus]

You could use an RSS feed. There are loads of RSS feeds that display latest sports scores etc, and there are plenty of ways to display RSS on your desktop. Screenlets, conky scripts, I'm sure you can find loads.

That's how I'd do it.

[abhiroopb]

You could use an RSS feed. There are loads of RSS feeds that display latest sports scores etc, and there are plenty of ways to display RSS on your desktop. Screenlets, conky scripts, I'm sure you can find loads.

That's how I'd do it.

Could you suggest any feeds please?

I have looked at a few feeds and none of them was really satisfactory...The problems I noticed were:

1. Feeds aren't really "live" they are dependent on how often they are updated from the source, and in some cases it hasn't been very effective.

2. The RSS feed format isn't really a "neat" way of displaying score updates..for example:

5" Liverpool 1 v 1 Hull
7" Man U 0 v 0 Man City
13" Liverpool 2 v 1 Hull

Basically, when there are many simultaneous matches going on it gets REALLY messy.

3. Feeds (generally speaking) aren't always customisable so I may have to put up with watching a number of games I don't particularly care about.

Anyway, if there is an RSS feed that solves the three problems above then I wouldn't mind using it, but so far I haven't found one that is suitable.

Thanks!

[howefield]

What about the score centre from sky sports ?


http://www.skysports.com/score_centre/

[abhiroopb]

Its a good website, but its just as useful as going to BBC sports. The feeds provided by Sky are "news feeds" and not really live updates. I mean I'd have to keep the browser open. I usually quite enjoy the BBC Live texts of various matches and events, but I was looking for something that would simply update the scores and would reside on my desktop (i.e. without a browser having to be opened).

[upengan78]

How about this,

http://sandeep.co.in/2008/11/01/get-...line-or-conky/

Although I haven't used it, it should work.

What I am using is below,

In conky.conf I have,

${execi 300 /etc/conky/conkyrss}

in conkyrss I have,

#RSS Setup
URI=http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml
LINES=6 #Number of headlines

#Environment Setup
EXEC="/usr/bin/curl -s" #Path to curl

#Work Start
$EXEC $URI | grep title |\
sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\
sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\
sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\
sed -e 's/\.//' |\
sed -e 's/\"//' |\
sed -e 's/\"//' |\
head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\
tail -n $(($LINES))

[abhiroopb]

Thanks for pointing out that post REALLY useful. I did not use you're script as it didn't work for me

[upengan78]

Thanks for pointing out that post REALLY useful. I did not use you're script as it didn't work for me

Glad the post worked for you, and I understand my script isn't helpful actually, I am now using the python script itself. Unfortunately it is pouring down at Jo'burg...

[abhiroopb]

It works really great now. I was wondering if it would be possible to get a script showing current football scores for (live) matches in the EPL.

[abhiroopb]

I know. I woke up in Singapore at about 12 midnight to start watching and just as I turned it on the game was stopped ! Incidentally, I'm Indian so I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight anyway.