See the Olympics 2024 medal table in your terminal.

medals.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# medals.sh
###########
# Show the Olympics 2024 medal table.
#
# Data from <https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/medals>
#
# Dependencies:
# - curl
# - jq
# - htmlq (install with `brew install htmlq`)
#
# Inspiration:
# <https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1eeommk/olympic_medal_table_extract_script/>
#
# meleu - <https://meleu.dev/>

set -Eeuo pipefail
trap 'echo "[ERROR]: ${BASH_SOURCE}:${FUNCNAME}:${LINENO}"' ERR

readonly URL='https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/medals'

main() {
  # shellcheck disable=2155
  local inputFile="$(mktemp)"
  local jsonFile="${inputFile}.json"
  local amount="${1:-10}"

  getMedalPage "$inputFile"
  getJsonData "$inputFile" "$amount" > "$jsonFile"
  renderMedalTable "$jsonFile"

  rm -rf "$inputFile" "$jsonFile"
}

getMedalPage() {
  local file="$1"

  # looks like olympics.com does not accept curl as an user-agent,
  # then we need to send a custom one.
  curl "$URL" \
    --silent \
    --location \
    --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0" \
    --output "$file"
}

getJsonData() {
  local file="$1"
  local max="${2:-10}"

  htmlq \
    --text \
    'script#__NEXT_DATA__' \
    --filename "$file" \
    | jq \
      ".props.pageProps.initialMedals.medalStandings.medalsTable[:${max}]
        | [ .[]
            | {
              description,
              medalsNumber: [.medalsNumber[] | select(.type == \"Total\")]
            }
          ]
        | [.[] | {description, medalsNumber: .medalsNumber[0]}]"
}

renderMedalTable() {
  local jsonFile="$1"
  local medalTableData
  local line
  local gold silver bronze total country

  medalTableData="$(
    jq --raw-output \
      '.[] | "\(.medalsNumber.gold):\(.medalsNumber.silver):\(.medalsNumber.bronze):\(.medalsNumber.total):\(.description)"' \
      "$jsonFile"
  )"

  echo "  🥇 |  🥈 |  🥉 | total | Country"
  echo "-----|-----|-----|-------|---------"
  while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n "${line}" ]]; do
    gold="$(cut -d: -f1 <<< "$line")"
    silver="$(cut -d: -f2 <<< "$line")"
    bronze="$(cut -d: -f3 <<< "$line")"
    total="$(cut -d: -f4 <<< "$line")"
    country="$(cut -d: -f5 <<< "$line")"

    printf " %3s | %3s | %3s | %5s | %s\n" \
      "$gold" "$silver" "$bronze" "$total" "$country"
  done <<< "$medalTableData"

  echo -e "\nSource: $URL"
}

main "$@"