Live score from Cricbuzz

In this script we are going to get live update from any website, i am using cricbuzz just for the purpose of this tutorial.

Requirements:

requests           - Install Requests

BeautifulSoup - Install bs4 (search for installation instruction on page) -Web scrapping tools for python

Notify - To send update on desktop notification.

Use below script and save as .py file, call script with while loop and u will get update on timely manner.

###Script###

import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

from gi.repository import Notify

Notify.init("Test")

url="http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-match/live-scores"

r = requests.get(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content)

title = soup.find_all("div", {"class": "cb-col-50 cb-col cb-schdl"})

score = soup.find_all("div", {"class": "cb-col-50 cb-col"})

i=0

for x, y in zip(title, score):

if i >= 3:

break;

print y.contents[0].text

msg = x.contents[0].text.encode('ascii', 'ignore') + " " +y.contents[0].text.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

print msg

notice=Notify.Notification.new("Live-Scores", msg)

notice.show()

i+=1