Cricket Score Indicator

Displays live scores from ESPNcricinfo website in your indicator panel

Working

Uses the unofficial JSON from ESPN Website to get the summary and scorecard for currently active matches

Requirements

Ubuntu (Unity) 14.04 and above should work out of box.

GNOME users should install AppIndicator Support shell extension first.

KDE is not supported.

Ubuntu/Debian users should use the PPA which automatically pulls dependencies.

ChangeLog - 4.5

• The length of indicator is reduced.
• User needs to open the scorecard in order to see the reduced information

NZ:  41/0 (10.1 ov)

ChangeLog - 4.0

• Scroll over panel text/icon to cycle through the match list
• Middle-click on panel text/icon to expand the current match's scorecard
• Added "Open in browser" option
• Enabled light theme (ubuntu-mono-light) support

Instructions

Install (PyPI)

sudo pip install cricket_score_indicator

If icons are not working then use ::
 sudo git-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
 sudo git-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark
 sudo git-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-light

Install (PPA)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rawcoder/cricket-score-indicator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cricket-score-indicator

Usage

From terminal run:

cricscore_indicator

To run indicator in background

nohup cricscore_indicator &

Run from the Application Menu

search for Cricket Score Indicator

Initially all scorecards (submenus) are disabled for reducing network usage as submenu update uses more data. The icons will not update as well since the update depends on scorecard data.

To enable scorecard for a particular match, use the "Scorecard" check button inside the submenu of that match.

Features

• Shows current score as indicator label
• Updated as soon as espncricinfo is updated
• Submenu shows the scorecard of corresponding match
• Categories for International and Domestic matches
• Option to set a particular match score as indicator label
• Adds new match as it is available and deletes the unavailable ones
• Icon shows the runs scored on the last delivery of the corresponding match
• Initially all submenus (scorecards) are hidden to reduce network usage

Screenshots

Ubuntu (Unity)

Ubuntu GNOME

License

Licenced under GPL v3. See the LICENSE file