[RELEASE] MMA Browser

Hmm, it looks like sherdog have changed their search method. How would one go about to find event id's now?

you can search for events using the search box on the right of the page still

Yes, but you cannot filter to events and whatever anymore. Which makes it utterly useless.
http://www.sherdog.com/search.php?Search...xt=ufc+144
118 matches.. hehe

search for "id=144" ?

Sorry, I meant the "Fight Finder" search box on the right rather than the general search, it still shows events there.

Anyway, I've gotten fed up wityh trying to scrape sherdog and it's limitations, so I've bought a domain and my plan is to make an open database for fight stats/metadata (e.g. TVDB/TMDB for fights). I'll keep you posted as I make progress.

cool! let me guess mmadb.com?!
really like this idea of an open DB. will be quite a bit of work to cultivate though. hope it works out!
maybe we can somehow import sherdogs already existing DB and build from there on...if that is legal?

(2012-03-17 14:41)pseudoheld Wrote:  cool! let me guess mmadb.com?!
really like this idea of an open DB. will be quite a bit of work to cultivate though. hope it works out!
maybe we can somehow import sherdogs already existing DB and build from there on...if that is legal?

something like that (metafight.com actually but there's nothing there yet) yeah it'll be difficult to fill the database at first but i think it'll be worth it in the end to have an open site/api we can use for free. It'd be really simple for me to scrape all this data from sherdog but i really don't know if it's allowed.

AFAIK most of this data is public record as the results of fights have to be reported by the athletic commission. But i'm still not sure i'd be allowed to dump all of sherdog. We might have to start from scratch

http://www.sherdog.com/stats/fightfinder...sociation=
Still nothing paddycarey, I can't find any way to get the id's anymore. So either I am stupid or it's not possible anymore.

use the search box in the sidebar at the right, just type the name of the event and it'll pop up below the search box

(2012-03-17 17:17)newphreak Wrote:  http://www.sherdog.com/stats/fightfinder...sociation=
Still nothing paddycarey, I can't find any way to get the id's anymore. So either I am stupid or it's not possible anymore.

The easiest way that I've found to do it is to do a Google search that looks like:

• Sherdog event ufc 144
  

The first result is usually the specific event page:

• http://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-144-Edgar-vs-Henderson-18347
  

And the event ID is set of digits at the very end of the URL

• 18347