Olympic Medal Counter

Overviedw

A simple python script to scrape google and display the current medal standings for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. It also reads results from a local json file so that it will keep wokring (in a sense) after Google stops posting results.

Built on a rainy day while I was refreshing my Python skillz.

Usage and Example Output:

$ python bin/get_medal_count_from_google.py --help usage: get_medal_count_from_google.py [-h] [--source {FromFile,FromWeb}] [--top TOP] [--ordered {total,gold}]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --source {FromFile,FromWeb}
                        where do we get the datas?
  --top TOP             How many coutries to list?
  --ordered {total,gold}
                        How to sort countries : gold count or total count?

Lets order by the number of gold medals and get the data from Google

$ python bin/get_medal_count_from_google.py --source FromWeb --ordered gold
Instantiating FromWeb
Russia               - 33  : 13 Gold, 11 Silver, 9  Bronze
Norway               - 26  : 11 Gold, 5  Silver, 10 Bronze
Canada               - 25  : 10 Gold, 10 Silver, 5  Bronze
United States        - 28  : 9  Gold, 7  Silver, 12 Bronze
Germany              - 19  : 8  Gold, 6  Silver, 5  Bronze

Lets order by the total medal count this time

$ python bin/get_medal_count_from_google.py --source FromWeb --ordered total
Instantiating FromWeb
Russia               - 33  : 13 Gold, 11 Silver, 9  Bronze
United States        - 28  : 9  Gold, 7  Silver, 12 Bronze
Norway               - 26  : 11 Gold, 5  Silver, 10 Bronze
Canada               - 25  : 10 Gold, 10 Silver, 5  Bronze
Netherlands          - 24  : 8  Gold, 7  Silver, 9  Bronze

I just want to know who is the BEST. (Russia is BEST!!)

$ python bin/get_medal_count_from_google.py --source FromWeb --ordered total --top 1
Instantiating FromWeb
Russia               - 33  : 13 Gold, 11 Silver, 9  Bronze

Ahh google is a)blocking me, or 2) Not postingresults, 3) Changed their format, lets use the local results.json

$ python bin/get_medal_count_from_google.py --source FromFile
Instantiating FromFile
Russia               - 33  : 13 Gold, 11 Silver, 9  Bronze
United States        - 28  : 9  Gold, 7  Silver, 12 Bronze
Norway               - 26  : 11 Gold, 5  Silver, 10 Bronze
Canada               - 25  : 10 Gold, 10 Silver, 5  Bronze
Netherlands          - 24  : 8  Gold, 7  Silver, 9  Bronze

Dependancies:

• Python 2. Lets say 2.7
• Python lxml library - I had trouble installing with pip as it has C dependancies. I had success on ubuntu just installing the deb via 'sudo apt-get install python-lxml'
• Internets. Specifically a cooperative Google.

Bugs

• None of the tie breaks are implemented
  • (ordered=gold and #gold == #gold, use #silver then #bronze)
  • (ordered=total and #total == #total, use #gold then #silver then #bronze)