mlb game data, within 24 hours of each game
i wrote a parser for NBA games, get the data straight from yahoo. Using Python and BeautifulSoup, piece of cake. I would think MLB could work the same.
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#22APIs into hospitals medical data.
And schools: class registration
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#23A reverse lookup for finding all the shortened URLs associated with a given canonical URL.
Interesting... what would be the application of this? Any ideas you can share?
Lots of possibilities, but think backtweets.com as an example of something which would be much easier to accomplish if such an API existed.
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#24My body, starting with my brain. Please provide clear documentation.
I would like:
storeNewBrainMemory();
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#25Free or low-cost tv schedule api. Currently one has to pay about $500 per market/region per month.
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#26Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
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#27Real-estate API (open homes, home sales by zip etc)
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#28Subway. On the stations here they have displays, that show in how many minutes the next train will arrive (which is real-time data). Would be cool if they broadcast this information on the net, you could see if you need to hurry to the station or not.
I doubt there's an API, but you can see departure boards for most (London) tube stations online: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/departureboards/tub...
They're actually more detailed than the boards in the stations as they show current train locations.
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#29mlb game data, within 24 hours of each game
i wrote a parser for NBA games, get the data straight from yahoo. Using Python and BeautifulSoup, piece of cake. I would think MLB could work the same.
Yeah, HTML scraping ESPN.com is not very hard. I did it for college basketball once in a strange sort of database that attempted to predict March Madness brackets. It worked really well for teams that had encountered each other during the season... except only 2 or 3 pairs of teams had ever played each other during the regular season. Works much better on NBA and NFL games, where there are far fewer teams, they see each other more often, and the rosters are a little more static.
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#30Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.
Realtime (i.e. in game stats) or just up to date player, team, league stats.
I think the leagues fight hard to disallow this although they have recently lost a couple high profile lawsuits.