It's not very flashy, but I created a Google Calendar for each MLB team's 2009 schedule:
http://mlb.bolinfest.com/
Each calendar will be updated automatically – I have a script that runs twice an hour while baseball games are on (it gets a break from 3am-noon eastern time) to scrape the latest data and update all of the calendars. Unfortunately, I don't think the calendars will be re-indexed that quickly by Google Calendar, but it's better than nothing.
I actually wrote Chickenfoot code two years ago to scrape data from mlb.com for use with CalMap and wikicalendars.com. Unfortunately, I never quite got Chickenfoot working with cron (which meant I manually ran the Chickenfoot script every morning to update the calendars), so this year I actually decided to run my original JavaScript code using Rhino since it's easy to kick off a Java process using cron. It sounds a little crazy, but it works great!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to embed a mini Google Calendar on my website. I have come across a widget that you have made http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/calendar-for-your-site.xml
I love it, except for that the event time in the pop up window is displayed in a wrong time zone (I think it's GMT 00:00) for non-Google users. Is there anything that I'm not doing correctly?
I'm sorry to communicate to you by posting a comment on you blog, but I could not find your email address anywhere on this blog. I would really appreciate it if you could give me some advice as to how to fix the time zone problem.
Regards,
Sumi
First - thanks! I wish I had discovered your Google calendar MLB schedules before the season started. Are you planning to do these again for 2010?
ReplyDelete- Is your script still running? If so, what gets updated? ... the game scores?
Guess I wasn't observant enough about the game score updates. Great job. And, thanks again.
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