So, the Phillies are the 2008 World Champions of baseball. My Cubs made it to the dance but turned out to be the dorky kid standing on the sidelines yet again. Looking back on ScoreBot’s run…

There were a couple hiccups along the way, but I’m pretty happy with the way ScoreBot performed. For its inaugural [...]

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By now, you know the drill – another season, another ScoreBot. This one’s for the NBA. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of the ScoreBot, check out MLB ScoreBot and NFL ScoreBot. For now, NBA ScoreBot will be limited to Twitter. If there’s a good enough demand for it on other networks*, I’ll port it [...]

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It just dawned on me the other day that an inherent benefit to using Twitter is that it creates an RSS feed for each user. This means that even if you aren’t on Twitter, you can benefit from either the MLB or NFL ScoreBots.
Here’s the URLs for each Bot’s RSS feed:

MLB: RSS and ATOM
NFL: RSS [...]

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You may remember the MLB ScoreBot I created in July to report MLB scores to its followers. Since it was so much fun (and I liked the positive feedback), I’ve decided to build an NFL ScoreBot.
The underlying premises of the bots are the same – go out to the official site and scrape scores. Since [...]

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