nhl-schedule-scrape.rb

%w(rubygems hpricot open-uri json).each { |x| require x  }

doc = Hpricot.parse(open("http://www.nhl.com/schedules/20092010.html#?navid=nav-sch-sea"))
data = (doc/'div[@class=skedDataRow]')

def parse_game_date(e)
  (e/'div[@class=skedDataRow date]').innerHTML.gsub(' ',' ').strip
end 

def parse_game_time(e)
  (e/'div[@id=skedStartTimeLocal]').innerHTML.strip
end 

def parse_visiting_team(e)
  (e/'div[@class=skedDataRow team]'/'div'/'a')[0].innerText.strip
end 

def parse_home_team(e)
  (e/'div[@class=skedDataRow team]')[1].innerText.strip
end 

def parse_network(e)
  (e/'div[@class=skedDataRow network]').innerHTML.strip
end

# lets clean this shit up
fresh = []

data.each do |e|
  game_date     = parse_game_date(e)
  game_time     = parse_game_time(e)
  visting_team  = parse_visiting_team(e)
  home_team     = parse_home_team(e)
  network       = parse_network(e)
  fresh << [game_date, game_time, visting_team, home_team, network]
end 

File.open(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'nhl.json'),'w') {|f| f << fresh.to_json }