This is a script to scrape and munge Minor League Baseball schedules into an org-mode format. Doing so for my local team (Go Express) has helped me to see more games since I can see them easily at a glance on my org-mode agenda along with everything else in my life. Hopefully this is helpful for someone else as well.
The team schedules are available from stanza.co as iCal (.ics) files. Someone had already create an awk script to convert iCal files to org-mode files. All I did was some plumbing around this in the form of a bash script to download the iCal files, run the conversion, and zip them all up.
To use, just run scripts/make_current_zip.sh. This will download and convert all 160 teams into org format, and put the resulting zip file into zips/. If you don’t wish to download all 160 teams, you can simply edit the file in data/${current_year}_team_names to omit the ones you don’t care about.
This changes pretty much every year, or at least much more frequently than the big league team names. Should come up with a means of scraping this so the whole process can be automated.