Scrapes NCCA Men's Basketball Division I team names and wins from http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-rpi

As of October 2017, ncaa_scrape lets you scrape team names and team wins from the NCAA RPI rankings page for Division I Men's college basketball. This gem uses nokogiri to scrape data from ncaa.com; if the NCAA website changes, this gem may fail.

To install from the command line:

• gem install ncaa_scrape

This gem uses nokogiri. To install from the command line:

• gem install nokogiri

Once installed:

• require 'ncaa_scrape'

NCAABasketball.new will scrape data from NCAA.com.

Methods include division_one_data, team_names, team_wins(team_name), and pick_five_total(teams).

• scrape = NCAABasketball.new
• scrape.division_one_data

Returns a hash of team data, with team name (string) as the key and wins (integer) as the value.

• scrape.team_names

• scrape.team_wins("Michigan St.")

Returns wins as an integer. Note: team names must match those included in scrape.division_one_data exactly.

• scrape.pick_five_total("Michigan St.", "Georgetown", "North Carolina", "Texas", "Indiana")

For use in your pick five basketball pool. Takes a list of team names and returns integer representing total wins for the 5 teams.

Tests written in rspec.

• gem install rspec

From the spec folder:

• rspec ncaa_scrape_spec.rb

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/jtrudell/NCAA-Basketball-Scraper/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request