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Mac Dashboard Widget Creation using Python : Call for Help!

I came up with this idea of making a dashboard widget that shows live updated scores for all major league baseball games happening at that moment. It was inspired by a very expensive device from the SkyMall catalog. Do any of you smart people out there in babbledog land have suggestions or hints about creating dashboard widgets and/or programming them using Python?

created Apr 15, 2008 by amanda

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5 responses

todd Apr 15, 2008

does it have to be baseball? no one likes baseball.
todd Apr 15, 2008
Chuck Apr 15, 2008

I think all the dashboard widgets are pretty much javascript. It also should be pretty simple if you can find a website that you can scrape for the scores. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that already existed.
Chuck Apr 15, 2008

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/sports/baseballwidget.html
gregg Apr 16, 2008

So, the thingy in the skymall only updates score every 15 minutes! seemed pretty ridiculous to me.