Shell script to get a Live cricket score from www.espncricinfo.com. Just run this shellscript then select your match. when ever you want to know score open that terminal and see. Just simple as Dhoni's helicopter shot :D

livecricketscore.sh

#/bin/bash
# Shell script to get a Live cricket score from www.espncricinfo.com
# To help Cricket fan DevOPS see the score on his Terminal.
# Thanks to ESPN SPORTS MEDIA LTD for their RSS feed.
# 
# Author : Arul <mailto:me@arulraj.net>

function get_html() {
  local html=$(curl -k -L -s $1)
  echo "$html"
}

function get_score() {
  while true; 
    do 
      get_html $1 | grep -oP '(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)'
      sleep 1m; 
    done;
}

function list_live_matches() {
  local live_rss=http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml
  local rss_content=$(get_html $live_rss)
  local rss_file_name="cricinfo_livescores.xml"

  echo "$rss_content" > $rss_file_name

  no_of_matches=$(xmllint --xpath 'count(/rss/channel/item)' $rss_file_name)

  echo "Live Cricket Matches"
  echo "--------------------"
  for ((i = 1; i <= no_of_matches; i++)); do
    title=$(xmllint --xpath '/rss/channel/item['$i']/title/text()' $rss_file_name)
    echo "$i: $title"
  done

  echo -n "Enter the match number : "
  read number
  if is_integer $number; then
    selected_title=$(xmllint --xpath '/rss/channel/item['$number']/title/text()' $rss_file_name 2>/dev/null)
    if [[ -z $selected_title ]]; then
      echo "Please give correct match number";
      rm -f $rss_file_name;
      exit 1      
    else
      echo "Selected Match is : $selected_title"
      match_link=$(xmllint --xpath '/rss/channel/item['$number']/link/text()' $rss_file_name)
      rm -f $rss_file_name
      get_score $match_link
    fi
  else
    echo "Please give number"
    rm -f $rss_file_name
    exit 1
  fi
  rm -f $rss_file_name
}

function is_integer() {
  printf "%d" $1 > /dev/null 2>&1
  return $?
}

function main() {
  
  if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
    list_live_matches
  else 
    get_score $1
  fi 

}

main $*

How to Install

wget --no-check-certificate https://gist.githubusercontent.com/arulrajnet/fb71169c35180f9d9abd/raw/livecricketscore.sh
chmod +x livecricketscore.sh
cp livecricketscore.sh /usr/bin/livecricketscore
sh /usr/bin/livcricketscore

This script using xmllint. So make sure you have that.

To Install xmllint in ubuntu

apt-get update
apt-get install curl libxml2-utils -y

How can i display the score on my desktop top right corner in a box.

Not working in Ubuntu 16.04.

Getting this error - /usr/bin/livecricketscore: 8: /usr/bin/livecricketscore: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

not working on 16.04, @ravindragullapalli you got any solution ?

@ravindragullapalli @siddharthsharmahy you have to install libxml2-utils and curl.

apt-get update
apt-get install curl libxml2-utils -y

I tried in plain vanilla ubuntu 16.04 its working.

amazing work @arulrajnet cheers.

While running on Termux Android Emulator I got this two below errors

for testing, I saved this file as termux.sh

Error 1

while running this command line as sh termux.sh or sh ./termux.sh

Error 2

it's work well while running bash termux.sh

but I got this error

if you are using this script on Android device via Termux
you need to install curl & libxml2-utils

• Curl

pkg install curl

• libxml2-utils

pkg install libxml2-utils

its Fixed by adding grep Package

pkg install grep

How can I get a notif whenever the score changes using this script ?

Is this still working?

@arulrajnet - When I try to execute I am getting this error -

livecricketscore.sh: 8: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

I tried to install curl by this cmd - Sudo apt-get install curl libxml2-utils -y but I got this below the message.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
curl is already the newest version (7.65.3-1ubuntu3).
libxml2-utils is already the newest version (2.9.4+dfsg1-7ubuntu3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded

On mac, changing

get_html $1 | grep -oe '(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)'

with

get_html $1 | perl -nle'print if m{(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)}' | sed -ne 's/<title>//;s/ - Live -.*//p'

worked!

On mac, changing

get_html $1 | grep -oe '(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)'

with

get_html $1 | perl -nle'print if m{(?<=<title>).*?(?=</title>)}' | sed -ne 's/<title>//;s/ - Live -.*//p'

worked!

This method not working in ubuntu 19.10 :(

Tested with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS working as expected.

Tested in docker version of ubuntu:19.10 . There also its working.

@menporulporiayalan Did you ran from bash shell?

@arulrajnet. Yes, I ran from the bash shell.

@arulrajnet. It is working, Thanks!