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There is one of these for sports scores too and it drives me crazy that there’s not an easy way to use it directly. For instance, I like to keep up with my col
by dpeck 4y ago
There is one of these for sports scores too and it drives me crazy that there’s not an easy way to use it directly.
For instance, I like to keep up with my colleges sports teams, but I don’t need the live tracker stuff (if I wanted that I’d watch the game on tv). But I’d love to have a Home Screen button that would bring up the “app” for “Georgia Tech baseball score” or “Georgia Tech basketball score” to quickly see what’s going on what I’m in between meetings at work or out doing something with the family.
No ads, no frills, it’d be gloriously simple and I assume there is some way to do it but I could not find it.
- dvtrn 4y agohttp://plaintextsports.com http://plaintextsports.com has become one of my favorite websites for every single reason you just went off about
- CodeIsTheEnd 4y agoThank you! (I made plaintextsports!) On my to-do list is making a personalized page where you can select exactly which teams you want to follow, something closer to what dpeck wants, but I've been having trouble finding the time...
- dpeck 4y agoThis would be awesome! I love plaintext sports and the minimalist aesthetics of it. Curious, it seems college baseball scores are generally not as easy to find as others. Do they tend to be behind more restrictive APIs, or is it more just that there’s so little interest in it vs MLB?
- CodeIsTheEnd 4y agoFor college football and basketball I just use some JSON endpoints that the ncaa.com frontend hits, and they're actually very good. Literally all I had to do to support Women's basketball in addition to Men's was change "men" to "women" in the url. I haven't checked the data for baseball, but I'm sure it's more than adequate. That being said, I personally don't have any interest in college baseball, and I don't think it has a huge following, so I'm not going to invest any time into it, especially when there are higher profile leagues that I still haven't added yet (specifically, all of European football).
- dpeck 4y agocompletely understand that, and you’re right on the small following. I like the high energy (for baseball that is) offensive heavy style of play, but I know I’m an outlier vs the MLB fan base size. Great site and wish you much continued success with it!
- dvtrn 4y agoOh hey! We talked over Twitter once about the site a few weeks ago, had no clue you were on HN :)
- Hnrobert42 4y agoI wonder if there is a a way you could do it with a man Apple Shortcut or a web page linked as an icon on your Home Screen. Maybe a URL that searches spotlight.
- dpeck 4y agoI figured there had to be, and that there might be a way to figure it out with connecting up developer tools from mobile Safari but I never pursued that path so might be completely wrong.