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Great job. I have my own mongodb of the games/scores that I update manually (not in real time though). I would love to see something automated like this for th
by abuzzooz 12y ago
Great job. I have my own mongodb of the games/scores that I update manually (not in real time though).
I would love to see something automated like this for the major leagues (La Liga, BPL, Bundesliga, Serie A). I tried my hand at scraping the HTML of different sites, but found out that the main ones guard against that by changing their HTML periodically, so I gave up.
Side question: what does HN think in general about scraping data from HTML? There are websites that charge for live sports data, and scraping them seems borderline unethical.
- matt_morgan 12y agoIn the US at least, facts can't be protected with copyright, and sports scores & statistics have been judged facts. So you would be OK, and ethical. But avoid scraping/re-sharing anything of added value, like commentary or analysis. I suspect rules in other countries vary.