Hi All,

I have prepared the below script to fetch the cricket scores. It will take ESPN CricInfo feed and run for every 2 minutes.

You have to pass the team that you are interested to look for scores. Here I took India and it will give the balloon notifications in your desktop.

It is Useful when doing the work and wanted to know the score for every 2 minutes and if any wicket falls, it will give the notification.

Script :

param(

[Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$false)][String]$Team = "india"

)

[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")

#region WriteLog function

function WriteLog($LogMessage, $LogDateTime, $LogType)

{

write-host

"$LogType, ["+
$LogDateTime +"]: "+ $LogMessage | Add-Content -Path $LogFilepath

}

#endregion

# Get Start Time

$startTime = (Get-Date)

$RunTime =get-date -Format "MMdyyyhhmmss"

# Get build folder parent directory

$scriptpath = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path

$ScriptDir = Split-Path $scriptpath

# Get Application folder path in the build folder

$LogFolderPath = $ScriptDir + "\" + "Logs"

# Check if Log folder already exists. If not create a folder for logging purposes

if(!(Test-Path $LogFolderPath))

{

New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $LogFolderPath

}

[string] $logdate =get-date -Format "yyyyMMdd"

$LogFolderFilepath =$LogFolderPath + "\" + "$logdate"

if(!(Test-Path $LogFolderFilepath))

{

New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $LogFolderFilepath

}

# creating logfile path string

$LogFilepath =$LogFolderFilepath +"\"+ "Logfile.txt"

$LogDateTime = get-date

WriteLog "***Getting the Scores for $Team" $LogDateTime "Information"

write-host "***Getting the Scores for $Team" -ForegroundColor Yellow

TRY

{

$PreviousScore = $null;

while($true)

{

[xml]$data = (Invoke-WebRequest ‘http://static.cricinfo.com/rss/livescores.xml‘).Content

if($?)

{

$CurrentScore = "";

$finalScore = "";

$wickdown = "";

$currWicket = "";

$PrevWicket = "";

foreach ($xnode in $data.rss.channel.childnodes)

{

if(($xnode.title -like "*$($Team)*") -and ($xnode.title -match "[0-9]"))

{

$CurrentScore = $CurrentScore + $xnode.title + "`n"

}

}

function WicketDown($CurrentScore,$PreviousScore)

{

$currWicket = ($CurrentScore.Split("/")[1]).split(" ")[1]

$PrevWicket = ($PreviousScore.Split("/")[1]).split(" ")[1]

if($currWicket -ne $PrevWicket)

{

return 1;

}

else

{

return 0;

}

}

if ([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($PreviousScore))

{

$PreviousScore = $CurrentScore;

$finalScore = $CurrentScore;

}

elseif (($PreviousScore -eq $CurrentScore ) -and (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($PreviousScore))))

{

$finalScore = $null;

}

elseif (($PreviousScore -ne $CurrentScore ) -and (-not([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($PreviousScore))))

{

$PreviousScore = $CurrentScore;

$finalScore = $CurrentScore;

$wickdown = WicketDown($CurrentScore,$PreviousScore)

}

else

{

}

$objNotifyIcon = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon

$objNotifyIcon.Icon = [System.Drawing.SystemIcons]::Information

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon = "Info"

if($finalScore -and $wickdown -ne ‘1’)

{

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipText = $finalScore

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = "Cricket Score:"

$objNotifyIcon.Visible = $True

$objNotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000)

}

if($finalScore -and $wickdown -eq ‘1’)

{

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipText = $finalScore

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipTitle = "Cricket Score:"

$objNotifyIcon.BalloonTipIcon = "Error" ;

$objNotifyIcon.Visible = $True

$objNotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip(30000)

}

else

{

$LogDateTime = get-date

WriteLog "***Could not find the Score for $team" $LogDateTime "Information"

write-host "***Could not find the Score for $team" -ForegroundColor Yellow

}

}

$objNotifyIcon.Dispose();

Start-Sleep -seconds 120

}

}

Catch

{

$ErrorOccured = $true

#region log exception in log file

$LogMessage = $_.Exception.Message

$LogDateTime = get-date

WriteLog $LogMessage $LogDateTime "Error"

WriteLog "$Action failed with Error" $LogDateTime "Error"

$ErrorActionPreference="Continue"

#endregion

}

Finally

{

$LogDateTime = get-date

WriteLog "*** Script exection stoppped " $LogDateTime "Information"

}

Happy scripting

Regards,

Chaitanya