Grabs Metascore of games in text file.

metascore-file.py

# Uses httplib2 instead of urllib2 - runs faster

#import urllib2
import httplib2
import time

s = time.time()

game_console = {}

# Populate dictionary with game:console from file.
f = open('game.txt')

for line in f:
    arr = line.partition(':')
    game_console[''.join(arr[0])] = (''.join(arr[2])).rstrip('\n')

f.close()

count = 0
total = len(game_console)

f = open('scores.txt', 'w')

f.write('Metacritic Score Grabber v0.1 - Output\n')
f.write('--------------------------------------\n\n')

print "\nMetacritic Score Grabber v0.1"
print "-----------------------------\n"
print "Working...\n"

for g, c in game_console.items():
    # Gets source code of game page
    Http = httplib2.Http()
    source = Http.request("http://www.metacritic.com/game/{0}/{1}".format(c.replace(' ', '-').lower(), g.replace(' ', '-').lower()))[1]

    # Checks if game name and/or console name is correct.
    if '<span class="error_type">Page Not Found</span>' in source:
        f.write('{0} on {1}: game name or console is incorrect\n\n'.format(g, c))
    else:
        f.write('{0} on {1}: \n\n'.format(g, c))
        
        # Finds metascore
        index = source.find('"v:average">')
        index += len('"v:average">')
        meta_score = source[index] + source[index+1]

        # Finds userscore
        index = source.find('"score_value">')
        index += len('"score_value">')
        try:
            user_score = float(source[index] + '.' + source[index+2])
        except ValueError:
            user_score = 'Not available'

        # Finds combined score
        try:
            combined_score = ((int(meta_score) / 10.0) + float(user_score)) / 2.0
        except ValueError:
            combined_score = 'Not available'

        # Writes results to file
        f.write('- Metascore is: ' + meta_score + '\n')
        f.write('- Userscore is: ' + str(user_score) + '\n')
        f.write('- Combined score is: ' + str(combined_score) + '\n')
        f.write('\n\n')

        count += 1
        print "{0}/{1} completed...".format(count, total)

f.write("Done in %f seconds." % (time.time()-s))
f.close()

print "\nDone. Check output file."
wait = input()