Howto check NHL or MLB Baseball and NBA scores from the command line
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Lynx is a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other "curses-oriented" display). It will display hypertext markup language (HTML) documents containing links to files residing on the local system, as well as files residing on remote systems running Gopher, HTTP, FTP, WAIS, and NNTP servers.
Install lynx command line browser
sudo aptitude install lynx
Now you need to use the following command
For MLB Scores
lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Texas
You need to replace Texas with the team you want to watch
For NHL Scores
lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Detroit
You need to replace Detroit with the team you want to watch
For NBA Scores
lynx -nonumbers -dump http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/scoreboard | egrep -i -A12 -B2 Dallas
You need to replace Dallas with the team you want to watch
Nice and handy howto! Lynxs is really cool, but ELinks its better: an advanced, enhanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser.
Check some of its features: ELinks can render both frames and tables, tabs, background download with queueing, some support for Cascading Style Sheetsand, etc, etc, etc… and it is highly customizable.
Install ELinks command line browser
sudo aptitude install elinks