Slothfulwave612/Footy-Events

A Python program that scrapes football fixtures from a website and add those events in your google calendar.

Footy-Events

Overview:

• This project Footy Events focusses on scrapping user's team fixtures and adding the fixture as an event in user's Google calendar.

• The website we are using for scrapping the content is: https://www.skysports.com/

• If you want fixture for FC Barcelona the site from where the data will be scrapped is: https://www.skysports.com/barcelona-fixtures

• The following is the basic prototype of our project:

Modules Used(Python):

1. Python: 3.7.5 (default, Oct 31 2019, 15:18:51) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]
2. requests: 2.22.0
3. bs4: 4.8.1
4. apiclient
5. google_auth_oauthlib: 0.4.1
6. pickle: 4.0
7. re: 2.2.1

Running Process:

• For running the program run the main_menu.py file.

• On running it you will be shown some options and have to make a choice.

• There are four choices:

  1. Enlist Your Team: In this option you can add your team names or can delete them.
  2. Enlist Your Competitions: In this option you can add you competitions.
  3. Run The Process: This option will run the whole process of scrapping and adding the content to your google calendar.
  4. Exit: To exit the program.

• On picking the first option(i.e. entering 1 in *Enter You Choice:- *), the user will be shown the following options:

  1. Add a Team:

     • On choosing this option, you will be asked to enter the team name.
     • Here you can do two things, either you can enter a single team name or multiple team names.
     • On entering team names a file named footy_teams.txt will be created which will contain all teams you have listed.

     For adding single team

     For adding multiple teams

     footy_teams.txt

  2. Preview Added Teams:

     • This option will display all the teams user has added to footy_teams.txt.

     Preview Added Teams

  3. Delete Added Teams:

     • This option will help users to delete the team names they listed.
     • Either the user can delete one team at a time or multiple teams at a time.
     • If the user want to delete all the team names, then can specify del_all when asked for the team name this will delete footy_teams.txt as well.

     For deleting single team

     For deleting multiple teams

     For deleting all the teams

  4. Back:

     • For going back to the main menu.

• One entering the second option the user will be shown the following options:

  1. Add a Competiton:

     • Here the user can add the competition's name.
     • The adding can be done in three ways.
     • If the user want to add only few teams featuring in that particular competiton.(1)
     • If the user want to add only few teams featuring in multiple competitions.(2)
     • If the user want to add all the teams featuring in that particular competiton.(3)

     For (1)

     For (2)

     For (3)

  2. Preview Added Competition:

     • This option will display all the competitions the user has listed.

  3. Delete Added Competition:

     • This option will delete the added competiton.
     • The user can perform three actions here.
     • If the user want to delete some teams from a particular competitions.(1)
     • If the user want to delete the competitions.(2)
     • If the user want to delete all competitions.(3)

     For (1)

     For (2)
     

     For (3)

  4. Back:

     • To go back to main menu.

• The third option is for adding/updating event in the user's google calendar.

• The user will be asked to enter the username so that the user's calendar info can be saved by that particular user name.

• Then the user will be given a link from where the user will allow the program the access for his/her google calendar, so that the program can add or update event.

• The process is shown in the following images:

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• And after the main scrapping process, you will see that the events has been added to your google calendar, this is the screenshot of my google calendar after I ran the program: