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<blockquote data-quote="zag2me" data-source="post: 80731" data-attributes="member: 19691">Evening all,No plugin yet, but I have written a small console app that reports the premiership football scores or Goals from the BBC vidiprinter website here:<a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/live_videprinter/default.stm" target="_blank">http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/live_videprinter/default.stm</a><img src="http://www.aqsf50.dsl.pipex.com/bbcvidiprinter.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The idea is to write a plugin around this console app that works with any sports websites that report scores. I got tired of plugins breaking when providers change their sites so im hoping to make this app configurable by the user and by keeping the grabber seperate it wont break the plugin each time something changes either.At the moment, the idea is to create a xml file with the results which can easily be read by a media portal plugin.<a href="http://www.gaz1.com/SportsScraper003.rar" target="_blank">App 0.3</a><a href="http://www.gaz1.com/SportsScraper003-source.rar" target="_blank">Source 0.3</a>Has anyone else got any sports requests or web pages that are scrapable, I need to look at them before designing the configuration file.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zag2me, post: 80731, member: 19691"] Evening all, No plugin yet, but I have written a small console app that reports the premiership football scores or Goals from the BBC vidiprinter website here: [url]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/live_videprinter/default.stm[/url] [img]http://www.aqsf50.dsl.pipex.com/bbcvidiprinter.jpg[/img] The idea is to write a plugin around this console app that works with any sports websites that report scores. I got tired of plugins breaking when providers change their sites so im hoping to make this app configurable by the user and by keeping the grabber seperate it wont break the plugin each time something changes either. At the moment, the idea is to create a xml file with the results which can easily be read by a media portal plugin. [b][url=http://www.gaz1.com/SportsScraper003.rar]App 0.3[/url][/b] [b][url=http://www.gaz1.com/SportsScraper003-source.rar]Source 0.3[/url][/b] Has anyone else got any sports requests or web pages that are scrapable, I need to look at them before designing the configuration file. [/QUOTE]

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