[jeffclark]

This is really impressive. How did you secure the games and scores data?

[weego]

Considering the wide range of possible triggers that don't have any kind of formal api I expect the answer is by scraping the right sites.

[bmelton]

At least the NBA and NFL write out RSS feeds of games as they're playing with the scores and plays as they occur, to varying degrees of specificity.

They're kind of a bear to parse, but it's definitely doable without scraping, in some cases.

[krsgoss]

Hi, do you have a link to these feeds by any chance? Was hoping for something like this for a POC. Thanks!

[bmelton]

The NFL game feed is a combination of a couple of feeds. There's

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip -- which will show you the events and IDs that are currently going active. Right now, in the off-season, it will undoubtedly be blank. You can then take those values and plug them into this one:

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/game-center/%s/%s_gtd.json % (year, game_id)

For something to illustrate how they work together, you can check out this repository: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame

I don't remember the one for the NBA, as I've never used it, but I saw an article on reddit a few weeks ago about how to get the data from the NBA using their RSS feed, so I have a good faith belief that it exists.

[krsgoss]

Thanks for sharing this! The only thing I had found was stuff like SportsXML, etc. but it took me weeks to just get a demo data dump for a single game and the pricing was way too much to bite off.