Get the current number of triple doubles by player (NBA)

triple_doubles.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Data via https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/double-doubles/sort/tripleDouble

# Requires curl, pup, and jq

# Steps:
# 1. Download the html
# 2. Parse the html
# 3. Filter out the empty/zero rows
# 4. Parse out just the player names and triple double counts

curl -Ss "https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/player/_/stat/double-doubles/sort/tripleDouble" \
    | pup '#my-players-table .tablehead tr json{}' \
    | jq 'map(select((.children[-1].text != null) and (.children[-1].text | tonumber > 0)))' \
    | jq '[.[] | [.children[1].children[0].text, .children[-1].text]]'