I wrote a customize-able UNIX bash retrosheet script to retrieve, parse, and place all data into a local mysql database. (One can probably adopt it for windows fairly easily, or use Cygwin)
Was hoping somebody here would test it out to see if its working properly on other computers.
Basically I did it just for future reference in case something happens to my database, so I don't have to go through the painstaking process of having to manually do everything again. Though it can be used to fetch the new data for a given year.
I tested parsing the 2010 and 2011 data in a virtualbox server session running ubuntu. This was just to save resources and time. I'm assuming from there getting earlier years shouldn't be a problem. Be advised, however, the database uses up a lot of space, and the script might take a while to run, depending on how far back you want data.
If you don't have a database, download apache and mysql (and phpmyadmin, eg.), then follow the mysql manual to create a username and password
Open up the file in a text editor and read how to configure and run.
Was hoping somebody here would test it out to see if its working properly on other computers.
Basically I did it just for future reference in case something happens to my database, so I don't have to go through the painstaking process of having to manually do everything again. Though it can be used to fetch the new data for a given year.
I tested parsing the 2010 and 2011 data in a virtualbox server session running ubuntu. This was just to save resources and time. I'm assuming from there getting earlier years shouldn't be a problem. Be advised, however, the database uses up a lot of space, and the script might take a while to run, depending on how far back you want data.
If you don't have a database, download apache and mysql (and phpmyadmin, eg.), then follow the mysql manual to create a username and password
Open up the file in a text editor and read how to configure and run.
