Livescore results

livescore.py

import requests
from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
import csv

r = requests.get('http://livescore.com')

root = fromstring(r.text)

home_teams = root.xpath('//td[@class="fh"]/text()')
away_teams = root.xpath('//td[@class="fa"]/text()')
scores = root.xpath('//td[@class="fs"]/a/text()')

with open('scores.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
	writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
	for home, away, score in zip(home_teams, away_teams, scores):
		try:
			home_score, away_score = score.split('-')
			row = [home.strip(), away.strip(), home_score.strip(), away_score.strip()]
			print 'writing', row
			writer.writerow(row)
		except: # TODO failing due to some unicode stuff probably getting only ascii chars would fix that
			pass # ignore for now