pinnaclefeed.py

#!/usr/bin/env python                                                                                                                                                          

"""                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                               
Proof of concept scraper for pinnacle sports                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                               
"""

FEED = "http://xml.pinnaclesports.com/pinnacleFeed.aspx"                                                                                                                       

import lxml.etree
import time
import urllib2

#tree = lxml.etree.parse(urllib.urlopen(FEED))                                                                                                                                 

request = urllib2.Request(FEED)

t0 = time.time()
response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
t1 = time.time()

print "Read feed in %s seconds" % (t1 - t0)
                                                                                                                                                                               
tree = lxml.etree.fromstring(response)