TV Sports Parser

Description

Scrape a public site for live tv sports guide data

Requirements

• ferrum ruby gem: source
• nokogiri ruby gem: source
• google chrome

Implementation

• scrapes https://sport-tv-guide.live/live/allsports with pre set (hardcoded) cookies to set tv stations of countries and use all sports types
• scraping is done via ferrum, which uses normal chrome in new headless-mode, debugging possible
• data will be put in Listing Struct
• outputs to stdout

Weaknesses

• not immune to changes on source sites of course
• cookie is hardcoded

Future Improvements

• icons
• configurable cookie (or at least document)
  • countries
  • sports types
  • tv stations
• source sites offers detail pages for each event with more extensive data, leverage them to get more reliable/detailed data