{"id":13177,"date":"2015-08-17T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T09:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13177"},"modified":"2015-08-17T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T07:50:52","slug":"monitoring-cricket-scores-with-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13177","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring cricket scores with the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3816\/19440950239_a30060af0c_z.jpg?resize=560%2C584&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores\u00a0while he was working in his office. The trouble is\u00a0almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company&#8217;s web traffic filter. So, he turned to the Raspberry Pi and a piece of software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crummy.com\/software\/BeautifulSoup\/bs4\/doc\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeautifulSoup<\/a>\u00a0to create a web scraper which would poll an (unnamed) service once a minute and then display the results in summary form on an LCD from a Nokia 5510. The data displayed is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teams playing<\/li>\n<li>Currently batting team with overs underneath it<\/li>\n<li>The score in the largest font<\/li>\n<li>4s\/6s and Run Rate<\/li>\n<li>1st Innings history if 2nd Innings is going on and 2nd innings PENDING if the first innings was underway.<\/li>\n<li>Match Status &#8211; Rains, Ended,In Progress etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He\u00a0has called the whole thing CricPi and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/rohitg.in\/2015\/07\/12\/CrickPi\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohit Gupta wanted to monitor cricket scores\u00a0while he was working in his office. The trouble is\u00a0almost all the sites he would use to do this were blocked by his company&#8217;s web traffic filter. 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