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I was trying to find a way to get live cricket scores on my desktop. I could have used retreived rss feeds every few minutes, but I found a simpler way on a mailing list Here, a python script by Sridhar.

I modified it a bit to fit my horizontal conky, and also the display format.

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Download cricscore.py
and place it in your home folder.

To get the live score in the terminal, just type

python cricscore.py

If you want it to show in conky, just add this line to your .conkyrc file where you want it to show

${execi 30 python cricscore.py}

that will update the score every 30 seconds

Anyway, heres my .conkyrc script: .conkyrc. (for the rhythmbox script, check here