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Nov 19, 2022CodeCatch
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ESPN Web Scrape

Oct 15, 2023LeifMessinger

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//Disclaimer: I do not condone mass web scraping of ESPN websites, and this is just theoretical code that hasn't been used.
//Scrape player stats off of https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/roster/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles
//Example player JS object
/*
{
"shortName": "S. Opeta",
"name": "Sua Opeta",
"href": "http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3121009/sua-opeta",
"uid": "s:20~l:28~a:3121009",
"guid": "dec19157-e984-f981-3724-498281328c97",
"id": "3121009",
"height": "6' 4\"",
"weight": "305 lbs",
"age": 27,
"position": "G",
"jersey": "78",
"birthDate": "08/15/96",
"headshot": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/headshots/nfl/players/full/3121009.png",
"lastName": "Sua Opeta",
"experience": 4,
"college": "Weber State"
}
*/
//The page needs to be focused, so you have to put this code in a bookmarklet and click the page before clicking it. Allegedly.
navigator.clipboard.writeText(JSON.stringify(
window["__espnfitt__"].page.content.roster.groups.flatMap((group)=>{
return group.athletes.map((athlete)=>{
//We can assume all football players are above 100 lbs and below 1000 lbs.
athlete.weight = parseInt(athlete.weight.substring(0,3));
if(athlete.experience == "R") athlete.experience = 0;
else athlete.experience = parseInt(athlete.experience);
//We can assume players are at least 1 foot, or under 10 feet tall.
athlete.inches = 12 * parseInt(athlete.height.substring(0, 1)); //Add feet in inches
athlete.inches += parseInt(athlete.height.substring(2).replaceAll("\"", "").trim()); //Add remaining inches
const monthDayYear = athlete.birthDate.split("/");
athlete.birthMonth = parseInt(monthDayYear[0]);
athlete.birthDay = parseInt(monthDayYear[1]);
athlete.birthYear = parseInt(monthDayYear[2]);
//The only really useful stuff we get from this is Height, weight, left handedness, age, position, and birthday
return athlete;
});
})
, null, "\t")).then(null, ()=>{alert("That failed.")});
//Changes all the team links on this page https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/team to the team's roster for easier scraping
$$("table > tbody > tr > td > div > div > a").forEach((elm)=>{
elm.setAttribute("href", elm.getAttribute("href").replace("team/", "team/roster/"));
});

Invert Binary Tree

Oct 15, 2022CodeCatch

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var invertTree = function(root) {
const reverseNode = node => {
if (node == null) {
return null
}
reverseNode(node.left);
reverseNode(node.right);
let holdLeft = node.left;
node.left = node.right;
node.right = holdLeft;
return node;
}
return reverseNode(root);
};

bucket sort

Nov 19, 2022CodeCatch

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const bucketSort = (arr, size = 5) => {
const min = Math.min(...arr);
const max = Math.max(...arr);
const buckets = Array.from(
{ length: Math.floor((max - min) / size) + 1 },
() => []
);
arr.forEach(val => {
buckets[Math.floor((val - min) / size)].push(val);
});
return buckets.reduce((acc, b) => [...acc, ...b.sort((a, b) => a - b)], []);
};
bucketSort([6, 3, 4, 1]); // [1, 3, 4, 6]

permutations

Nov 19, 2022CodeCatch

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const permutations = arr => {
if (arr.length <= 2) return arr.length === 2 ? [arr, [arr[1], arr[0]]] : arr;
return arr.reduce(
(acc, item, i) =>
acc.concat(
permutations([...arr.slice(0, i), ...arr.slice(i + 1)]).map(val => [
item,
...val,
])
),
[]
);
};
permutations([1, 33, 5]);
// [ [1, 33, 5], [1, 5, 33], [33, 1, 5], [33, 5, 1], [5, 1, 33], [5, 33, 1] ]

levenshtein distance

Nov 19, 2022CodeCatch

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const levenshteinDistance = (s, t) => {
if (!s.length) return t.length;
if (!t.length) return s.length;
const arr = [];
for (let i = 0; i <= t.length; i++) {
arr[i] = [i];
for (let j = 1; j <= s.length; j++) {
arr[i][j] =
i === 0
? j
: Math.min(
arr[i - 1][j] + 1,
arr[i][j - 1] + 1,
arr[i - 1][j - 1] + (s[j - 1] === t[i - 1] ? 0 : 1)
);
}
}
return arr[t.length][s.length];
};
levenshteinDistance('duck', 'dark'); // 2

find primes

Nov 19, 2022CodeCatch

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const primes = num => {
let arr = Array.from({ length: num - 1 }).map((x, i) => i + 2),
sqroot = Math.floor(Math.sqrt(num)),
numsTillSqroot = Array.from({ length: sqroot - 1 }).map((x, i) => i + 2);
numsTillSqroot.forEach(x => (arr = arr.filter(y => y % x !== 0 || y === x)));
return arr;
};
primes(10); // [2, 3, 5, 7]