Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal

Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by jlawer on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:33AM (#21654836)

There needs to be a cricket version of this (especially with 5 day test matches). I don't know if the raw data is available without crazy licensing though.

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Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by unfunco on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:03AM (#21655698)

I've been using SportMonks for football data and they do cricket too: https://www.sportmonks.com/cricket-api

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Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by zouhair on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:27AM (#21657129)

Well this makes me appreciate the NHL/NFL/NBA/MLB free apis.

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Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by unfunco on Thursday November 28, 2019 @09:24AM (#21657544)

I've been using the free version of the football API from SportMonks whilst I write a client, but it's limited to just a few (not so popular) leagues. I intend on using it for commercial purposes in a few months though, and the price compared to Opta and SportRadar is much more reasonable.

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Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by govg on Thursday November 28, 2019 @02:25AM (#21655285)

As a weekend hack you could probably scrape cricinfo - used to do that with a shell script and the notify method in linux to pop up cricket scores.

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Re:Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own te... by throwawaywrench on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:53AM (#21654931)

That seems to be the blocker for a lot of sports stuff. Is there a freely available API?

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