Project's Description

As you can guess, I play FPL. I used to check how some managers are doing, opening many tabs in my browser. It was an annoying experience, so that motivated me to develop this project.

Thanks to fpl-rivals-tracker, you can follow your rivals much easier. After running the script, you're asked how do you want to sort the data, by:

Total points
Gameweek points

Then, you're prompted to answer whether you want to check some stats based on it.

PS: The table contains many columns, so if it doesn't fit in your terminal, just decrease its font size until it looks good.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Python 3

Installing

Open your Terminal/PowerShell. Each step below will be executed there.
Check Python version:

1.1) Type: python --version -- if you see a similar output: Python 3.6.7, then you can skip 1.2)

1.2) Type: python3 --version -- if you installed Python successfully, you should see something like this: Python 3.6.7.

~> You're going to use either python & pip or python3 & pip3 during the whole guide.
Then follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/arndff/fpl-rivals-tracker.git
cd fpl-rivals-tracker

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Project

Don't forget to keep your Terminal/PowerShell open.

File Utils

You can run the script this way: python file_utils_main.py.

There're some useful options which file utils script offers to you. Here's what you'll see:

If you choose 1) or 2), then you have to enter a file name (without its extension). For instance, example_file_with_ids instead of example_file_with_ids.txt.

After that, simply enter an integer which indicates how many IDs you want to add. Then you're able to write them one by one.

Files generated by option 1) are stored into the data folder, located inside the project. You can modify them manually by using option 2). The rules are:

Each line should contain a single ID.
Notice how after each ID, there's no other characters on the same line.
File extension must be .txt.

Your files with rivals IDs must have this structure, otherwise the script won't work properly. To check whether a text file, not generated by file_utils_main.py, is valid, you can choose option 3 which will prompt you to enter a file path: if there're some mistakes, you'll be informed which line numbers have to be fixed.

Rivals tracker

Okay, let's assume you've just generated a file with IDs. The script expects only one argument: path to a text file which contains your rivals IDs (the path can be relative/absolute). Now, let's run the script. Here's how:

python main.py {path}.

A Concrete Example

In data folder, there's a file called example_file_with_ids.txt. Its content looks like this:

Here's how the script can be run with the aforemetnioned file:

python main.py data/example_file_with_ids.txt

Sample output:

As you can notice, there's another menu after the table gets loaded which allows you to check some stats.

H2H Analyzer

If you participate in H2H leagues, I developed a handy script which shows you some information about all your upcoming matchups.

You can run the script this way: python hth_main.py. After that, you have to enter your ID.

There's a sample output of this script:

Contribution

If you have any questions or notice that something doesn't work correctly, you can send me a DM on Twitter.

Good luck in beating your rivals! 😉