Schedules & Scores API for Streaming Live Sports Stats - MSNBC

gistfile1.py

import pytz
import datetime
import time
import urllib2
import json
import os
import elementtree.ElementTree as ET

url = 'http://scores.nbcsports.com/ticker/data/gamesNEW.js.asp?jsonp=true&sport=%s&period=%d&random=%d'

def today(league):
  yyyymmdd = int(datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific')).strftime("%Y%m%d"))
  games = []
  timestamp = int(round(time.time() * 1000))

  
  try:
    f = urllib2.urlopen(url % (league, yyyymmdd,timestamp))
    jsonp = f.read()
    f.close()
    json_str = jsonp.replace('shsMSNBCTicker.loadGamesData(', '').replace(');', '')
    json_parsed = json.loads(json_str)
    for game_str in json_parsed.get('games', []):
      game_tree = ET.XML(game_str)
      visiting_tree = game_tree.find('visiting-team')
      home_tree = game_tree.find('home-team')
      gamestate_tree = game_tree.find('gamestate')
      home = home_tree.get('nickname')
      away = visiting_tree.get('nickname')
      os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
      start = int(time.mktime(time.strptime('%s %d' % (gamestate_tree.get('gametime'), yyyymmdd), '%I:%M %p %Y%m%d')))
      del os.environ['TZ']
      
      games.append({
        'league': league,
        'start': start,
        'home': home,
        'away': away,
        'home-score': home_tree.get('score'),
        'away-score': visiting_tree.get('score'),
        'status': gamestate_tree.get('status'),
        'clock': gamestate_tree.get('display_status1'),
        'clock-section': gamestate_tree.get('display_status2')
      })
  except Exception, e:
    print e
  
  return games

if __name__ == "__main__":
  for league in ['NFL', 'MLB', 'NBA', 'NHL']:
    print today(league)
    time.sleep(30)