Data from the ESPN Cricinfo website is available from the STATSGURU website.
The url is of the form-
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?
class=1;team=6;template=results;type=batting
If you break down this URL to get more statistics on cricket, you can choose the following parameters.
class
1=Test
2=ODI
3=T20I
11=Test+ODI+T20I
team
1=England
2=Australia
3=South America
4-West Indies
5=New Zealand
6=India ,7=Pakistan and 8=Sri Lanka
type
batting
bowling
fielding
allround
fow
official
team
aggregate
ESPN Terms of Use are here-you may need to check this before trying any web scraping.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/site/company/terms_use.html
However ESPN has unleashed the API (including both free and premium)for Developers at http://developer.espn.com/docs.
and especially these sports http://developer.espn.com/docs/headlines#parameters
| /sports | News across all sports/sections | ||||
| /sports/baseball/mlb | Major League Baseball (MLB) | ||||
| /sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball | NCAA Men’s College Basketball | ||||
| /sports/basketball/nba | National Basketball Association (NBA) | ||||
| /sports/basketball/wnba | Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) | ||||
| /sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball | NCAA Women’s College Basketball | ||||
| /sports/boxing | Boxing | ||||
| /sports/football/college-football | NCAA College Football | ||||
| /sports/football/nfl | National Football League (NFL) | ||||
| /sports/golf | Golf | ||||
| /sports/hockey/nhl | National Hockey League (NHL) | ||||
| /sports/horse-racing | Horse Racing | ||||
| /sports/mma | Mixed Martial Arts | ||||
| /sports/racing | Auto Racing | ||||
| /sports/racing/nascar | NASCAR Racing | ||||
| /sports/soccer | Professional soccer (US focus) | ||||
| /sports/tennis | Tennis |
I wonder when this can be enabled for Cricket as well (including APIs free,academic,premium,partner ).
(Note you can use R packages XML , RCurl , rjson, to get data from the web among others).
Plotting is best done using ggplot2 http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ or d3.js at http://mbostock.github.com/d3/, and the current status of cricket graphics can surely look a change- they are mostly a single radial plot of shots played /runs scored or a combined barplot/line graph.
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