daemongh/sportsball

A slack integration using for WC 2018

SPORTSBALL

A slack integration for updating start, stop, half-time and goals of WC 2018.

Setup

You will need a settings.json file with the following information (located in the same folder):

{
  "slack_instances": [
    {
      "webhook": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/here",
      "channel": "#wc2018"
    }
  ],
  "slack_payload": {
    "username": "Sportsball",
    "icon_emoji": ":soccer:",
    "link_names": 1
  },
  "football-data-token": "token",
  "hours_to_add": 0 //this is if you're running it on a server that does not have the same time zone as your local time
}

More instances of slack are supported, just add more dicts with webhook and channel

Requires: python 3.6

Modules not installed by deafult:

• aiohttp
• dateutil (python-dateutil)

How it works:

Once you start running the script it will update on today's matches, then keep running and update about new goals, half-time score and match endings (with score). Personally running it on a server with a cronjob that starts a screen with the script at 9 in the morning, then kills the screen in the evening.

The different .py files use different ways to find out the information needed:

• wc.py uses the API of https://github.com/estiens/world_cup_json
• fd.py uses the API of football-data.org (a token from there is needed)
• google.py is a webscraper that uses googles real time updates

Disclaimer

All of the updaters work on a scraper, which is inherently not a very safe way to gather information. The code is mostly written in a few hours and then trying to monkey-patch once an error is found. Do not use the code as a good example of python code, and keep in mind that the data it relies upon might fail.