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Scrape metacritic for scores
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/qqnqt/metacritic_score_grabber/ | |
import urllib2 | |
import re | |
url = 'http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/mass-effect-3' | |
r = urllib2.urlopen(url) | |
html = r.read() | |
user_score = r'<span class="score_value">([\d\.]+)</span>' | |
meta_score = r'<span class="score_value" property="v:average">([\d\.]+)</span>' | |
uscore = re.compile(user_score) | |
mscore = re.compile(meta_score) | |
scores = { | |
'u': uscore.search(html), | |
'm': mscore.search(html), | |
} | |
for key, value in scores.items(): | |
if value is not None: | |
scores[key] = float(value.groups()[0]) | |
if (scores['u'] is not None) and (scores['m'] is not None): | |
scores['c'] = ((scores['m'] / 10.0) + scores['u']) / 2.0 | |
for key, value in scores.items(): | |
print key, value |
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