Program to fetch live cricket score and give score notification periodically

This program help you to fetch live cricket score and display it on command line. GUI notification will work on Ubuntu.

Dependencies:

* Python 2.x
* BeautifulSoup < to parse HTML>
* Requests <HTTP library for human beings>

Download the dependencies and install by running # python setup.py install, after uncompromising the each dependencies.

Platform: 

Cross platform

Functionality:

Program will give you a list of cricket matches with score and wicket details. When you choose a match, live score of the match would be display along with additional details (wicket, batsman, bowler and over).

You can continue to get the live score on command line and Ubuntu GUI if you enter 'y' when it prompts for notification and there by you will be asked to enter interval period to fetch the live score details.

Do keyboard interrupt (ctrl +c/z/d) to exit from the program.

Program:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import time
import sys, os
import subprocess as SE

cricinfoRss = 'http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml'

def getURLtext(url):
    retryCount = 5
    r = requests.get(url)
    while r.status_code is not 200:
        if retryCount == 0:
            print 'Check your internet connectivity'
            sys.exit(1)
        retrycount -= 1
        print 'Request failed, trying again..'
        time.sleep(3)
        r = requests.get(url)
    data  = r.text
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
    return soup

def findMatches():
    global allMatches
    liveMatches = getURLtext(cricinfoRss)
    allMatches = liveMatches.find_all('description')

    if len(allMatches) > 1:
        askUser()

def askUser():
    global choice
    for index, game in enumerate(allMatches[1:], 1):
        print '%d.'%index , str(game.string)
   
    choice = int(input('Choose preferred match:\n'))

    while True:
        if choice in range(1, index + 1):
            break
        choice = int(input('Invalid Choice. Enter your choice: '))

def guiNotify(message):
    if os.path.isfile('/etc/lsb-release'):
        SE.Popen(['notify-send', message])

def getScore():
    scoreURL = str(allMatches[choice].find_next_sibling().string)
    mainPage = getURLtext(scoreURL)
    score = str(mainPage.title.string).split('|')[0]
    inningsReq = mainPage.find("div", { "class" : "innings-requirement" }).string.strip()
    message = score + inningsReq
    guiNotify(message)
    print message

try:
    findMatches()
    getScore()
    notify = raw_input('Would you like to get notification?\nEnter (y|n)\n>')
    if notify == 'y':
        min = int(input('How many minutes once you would like to get notified?\nEnter min>') )
        while True:
            time.sleep(min * 60)
            getScore()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print 'keyboard interrupted, program end'