
wmScoreBoard downloads the current score for a specified team from the Net 
and displays the score in a 64x64 pixel window suited for WindowMaker and AfterStep.

A Perl script called GrabScores is used to download the scoreboard web page 
from Excite for a specified sport.  The script then parses the HTML code
to find the current (or final) score for the specified team.  wmScoreBoard is written
to understand scores for baseball, basketball, football, etc.  It does not understand
scores for races, tennis, golf, etc.  The Excite sport and team codes can be found
by inspecting the URLs on the scoreboard pages ( http://sports.excite.com ). For
example, the sport code for professional hockey is 'nhl' and the team code for the
Colorado Avalanche is 'col'.

Downloading an HTML page and parsing it for the scores is not very efficient nor robust.
The NCAA basketball scoreboard page requires downloading 20K-70K of HTML just to get
one score.  Also, if Excite changes their scoreboard layout, URL structure, 
team codes, or sport codes, the GrabScores script will need to be re-written.
It would be much better if there was a plain text page that could be used.  Better yet,
a site that gives the score based on a query ( ala wmstock and Yahoo ) would be ideal.
Any information on such a site would be greatly appreciated.

Feel free to direct any questions, defect reports, enhancement requests, and patches to
Todd Kuper (takuper@worldnet.att.net).

Enjoy.
