Live Cricket Scores Using Python Script

Hi friends,

In this post, we'll see a python script to get the live cricket score of a particular match using espncricinfo site. The script browses the espncricinfo website and lists all the live matches going on. The user can then select a specific match from the list and the script shows the live scores of the selected match. The script also fetches the score of the selected match after every 20 seconds which can be changed accordingly. So, here is the script to see live scores of a cricket match. 

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from time import sleep
import sys

print('Live Cricket Matches:')
print('=====================')
url = "http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml"
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'lxml')

i = 1
for item in soup.findAll('item'):
 print(str(i) + '. ' + item.find('description').text)
 i = i + 1

links = []    
for link in soup.findAll('item'):
 links.append(link.find('guid').text)

print('Enter match number or enter 0 to exit:')
while True:
 try:
  userInput = int(input())
 except NameError:
  print('Invalid input. Try Again!')
  continue
 except SyntaxError:
  print('Invalid input. Try Again!')
 if userInput < 0 or userInput > 30:
  print('Invalid input. Try Again!')
  continue
 elif userInput == 0:
  sys.exit()      
 else:
  break

url = links[userInput - 1]
r = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'lxml')  

while True:
 matchUrl = links[userInput - 1]
 r = requests.get(matchUrl)
 soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'lxml') 
 score = soup.findAll('title')       
 try:
  r.raise_for_status()
 except Exception as exc:
  print ('Connection Failure. Try again!')
  continue
 print(score[0].text + '\n')
 sleep(20)