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You could have typed this entire thing in the world cup script thread you know

I did some modifications for personal use, and perhaps some suggestions for the script:

1) I read from 2 websites: BBC for score and NYtimes for live play-to-play action.

I have not found a way to automatically read in the info from the NYtimes, so for now I have to manually enter the starting point to read in the text about 5 times every match Does anyone knows a better live text feed site/rss, perhaps something short and sweet like the worldcup site's matchcast or espn gamecast?

2) The format of the string is {BBC-score}{NYtimes-action}. This can be quite long, so i display it as my nick and it overflows to the psm.

3) I also modified the toasts to differenciate goals from other events like start/HT/FT. (something like the worldcup site matchcast)


I also have an idea to "rip" some live picture off the internet and merge it with the score and display it as my "live" dp... but I have no idea where to get the photo and how to process it during runtime...

The newssource only shows AET, no PSO score and etc.

maybe the offical fifa yahoo website would be a better source, not sure how is the data going to be captured though.

I managed to get live text feed from http://footymadwc.sportbox.tv. page format is standardised so it was quite easy to extract the data. I display the last 3 plays and their minutes on my nick and psm.

However, I found that the refreshing is a bit weird. Think its because IE and Messenger share the same cache, so I have to keep the page open in IE to let the data update correctly. Wonder if there is anything  I can do about it...

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Originally posted by hanlin
I managed to get live text feed from http://footymadwc.sportbox.tv. page format is standardised so it was quite easy to extract the data. I display the last 3 plays and their minutes on my nick and psm.

However, I found that the refreshing is a bit weird. Think its because IE and Messenger share the same cache, so I have to keep the page open in IE to let the data update correctly. Wonder if there is anything  I can do about it...

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You should have kept a bit of my code in.  I took the URL and changed it thus:

"http://...../page.asp?refresh="+Math.random();

That adds a random number to the url so that the page will never be cached.

I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work for the website I am using...

mid = "3034908";
var url = "http://footymadwc.sportbox.tv/football/matchcentre/matchcentre.php?id=" + mid;

I changed it to:

var url = "http://footymadwc.sportbox.tv/football/matchcentre/matchcentre.php?id=" + mid + "?refresh="+Math.random();

couldn't get anything out of it. Did I do anything wrong?

Yes, if there's already a variable in the url it'll need to be &refresh

Though I suppose that shouldn't really matter... but try anyway.

Wow! It works! thanks

hanlin, could you post your working script here thanks!

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Originally posted by omega_
hanlin, could you post your working script here thanks!

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Here it is... But don't expect it to be bug free... I think there's a little problem with the nickname/psm change upon fulltime... and a bit of other stuff here and there.. It was modified to work.. but barely...

You will need to modify the script before every match to match the ID from the website. Before the match, visit the website and edit the script (line1).

Here's how to:
   Go to http://wc.footymad.net/live-scores
   obtain the url for match centre for the desired match.
   Example:
   http://footymadwc.sportbox.tv/football/matchcentr...tre.php?id=3034908
      --> The id is 3034908
   Go to line 1 and replace the value of mid --> var mid="3034908"

After editing line 1, You may also want to edit the option on line 6.

The data for the live text and scores are obtained from different websites, so depending on the speed of their updating, there might be a slight difference between the displayed score and the action. (but its about there)

Also, the code is very messy and inefficient, cos i decided that it was not really worth the effort optimising it as the world cup gonna end in 6 matches...

Finally, it was modified to my personal use and liking... so most of u might not like the extravagant and lengthy nicks and psms, etc...

If you don't mind the above trouble, of just curious, you may try it

I just hope it works on your system.