SCRAPING FANTASY SPORTS DATA

摘要

Techniques for “scraping” and/or obtaining fantasy sports data include accessing a fantasy sports server. The access may include accessing publicly available data, accessing data for which a user's username and/or password are required, and/or accessing data by operation of an applications programming interface provided by the server(s) or by a file transfer protocol (FTP) provided by the server(s), etc. Upon gaining access, fantasy sports information may be obtained for a plurality of users. The fantasy sports information may include fantasy team roster information, fantasy team game schedule, etc. The fantasy sports information may be used to create a profile of each of a plurality of fantasy sports users. The database may be used with an interleaver or other service to determine which of a plurality of video clips of athletes should be sent to each of a plurality of users.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
under control of one or more processors executing instructions stored in memory, performing operations comprising: accessing a server storing fantasy sports information; obtaining information about a fantasy sports team of each of a plurality of users from the server; and building a database using the obtained information; and using the database to determine to which of each of the plurality of users to send particular video clips.