[paulcole]

I got sick of how slow ESPN/Sportsline/NFL.com etc. were when all I wanted was to see NFL scores. So I made a little script to pull the NFL's live JSON game data file and display it in plain text. Bold who had the ball, italicize if they were in the red zone, etc.

[is_true]

But what API do you use that you can get the data faster?

[paulcole]

It’s not an API just some random JSON file. It’s some random php file on a web server. I just refresh the page when I want to see the score. It’s the speed of all the other stuff on the page (videos, whatever) that makes ESPN, etc. unbearable. I just want the numbers.

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scores/scores.json