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Originally Posted by Phelps McManus  Why wouldn't it work? Looking at the source for NFL scores on ESPN.com, you can run right down to the 'div class="teams"' tag and rip out the team names. Go down 5 lines to 'div class="tscore"' tag and rip off the scores. You can even look for a winner arrow to determine if the game is over.
If you want, you could probably even use XML to record the structure of their divs and parse all kinds of shit.
Be careful how often you run this. If ESPN thinks you are a web crawler bot (which you are), they could ban your IP. I recommend only running manually after games or on a schedule (like Sunday night and Tuesday morning)" |
Good point. We'll just have to hope that doesn't happen, heh. Right now we're looking at archived scores from 2005, and 2006. 2007 will come if and when those first two seasons are done.
Thanks for the help guys. and yes, we have access to full versions of .NET 2003. 6 days left to get a semi-working prototype put together. wish me luck.