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nice job, but single purpose apps like this are kinda meh... Unless the ONLY sports you care about is in fact the NBA. Otherwise, you'd still need to visit so

nice job, but single purpose apps like this are kinda meh... Unless the ONLY sports you care about is in fact the NBA. Otherwise, you'd still need to visit some sports site for updates. I would imagine this can be easily made sports agnostic? Maybe not... Maybe not all the leagues have a realtime API or they do not conform to the same interface.

stoic 9y ago
time to fork it and send a PR!
mulletbum 9y ago
Do you have issues with calculator? Usually a comprehensive app like you are talking about gets built onto until it reaches all sports. Can this not just be the first step?
- jordache 9y ago
  I regard the calculator as feature complete. This can be feature complete for individuals who represent the cross section of NBA and terminal fanatics. Anyone else outside of this cross section, the dependency on the likes of espn.com is still there, and will likely have it open in an adjacent browser. Expanding your calculator analogy, my point would be akin to critiquing an add only calculator app
genzoman 9y ago
Maybe you can port it to the sport of your choice to watch through a terminal.
- jordache 9y ago
  Not my taste... I imagine some people would like to view it in terminal though.. I was merely thinking out loud. Are the sports APIs standardized, or even readily available across all the popular sports in the U.S. ?
  - simonw 9y ago
    I’m gonna guess no. I’m amazed that even one sport offers a high quality enough API to build something like this. Looks like this uses a very unofficial API - see the note about AWS IP ranges being blocked on https://www.npmjs.com/package/nba https://www.npmjs.com/package/nba
prh8 9y ago
No, not all leagues have a realtime API that conforms to the same interface. If so it would really hurt business for companies likes STATS Inc and Sportradar.
abritinthebay 9y ago
> I would imagine this can be easily made sports agnostic? Only if you can find the same quality of data feeds in the sports. It'll never be agnostic but it could in theory be generalized so that it's easy to add sports. But again - data formats.

stoic 9y ago

time to fork it and send a PR!

mulletbum 9y ago

Do you have issues with calculator? Usually a comprehensive app like you are talking about gets built onto until it reaches all sports. Can this not just be the first step?

jordache 9y ago
I regard the calculator as feature complete. This can be feature complete for individuals who represent the cross section of NBA and terminal fanatics. Anyone else outside of this cross section, the dependency on the likes of espn.com is still there, and will likely have it open in an adjacent browser. Expanding your calculator analogy, my point would be akin to critiquing an add only calculator app

genzoman 9y ago

Maybe you can port it to the sport of your choice to watch through a terminal.

jordache 9y ago
Not my taste... I imagine some people would like to view it in terminal though.. I was merely thinking out loud. Are the sports APIs standardized, or even readily available across all the popular sports in the U.S. ?
- simonw 9y ago
  I’m gonna guess no. I’m amazed that even one sport offers a high quality enough API to build something like this. Looks like this uses a very unofficial API - see the note about AWS IP ranges being blocked on https://www.npmjs.com/package/nba https://www.npmjs.com/package/nba

prh8 9y ago

No, not all leagues have a realtime API that conforms to the same interface. If so it would really hurt business for companies likes STATS Inc and Sportradar.

abritinthebay 9y ago

> I would imagine this can be easily made sports agnostic? Only if you can find the same quality of data feeds in the sports. It'll never be agnostic but it could in theory be generalized so that it's easy to add sports. But again - data formats.