garyzava/fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-slack-python-api

Python script that reads data from the FIFA's API for World Cup Qatar 2022, then post the data on a slack channel through a slack bot (slack app).

fifa-world-cup-qatar-2022-slack-python-api

Python script that reads data from the FIFA's API for World Cup Qatar 2022, then post the data on a slack channel through a slack bot (slack app).

Overview

• Disclaimer
• Slack App
• Installation
• Usage
• Test
• Credits And Useful Resources

Disclaimer

Use it at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage caused by this script. The script assumes that the FIFA API uses the UTC+0 timezone, gmtime() function is used to convert the date to UTC+0 timezone.

Slack App

Create a bot following the twilio guide below, follow only the slack guide.

Installation

Run pip install to install the project, do not use install setup.py.

pip install .

Create a subfolder 'env' and a file .env to store your slack bot token.

#Slack Credentials
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN='xoxb-****'

Usage

Create a cron job or a windows task to run the notifier.py every minute.

Example to run it from linux environments:

cd [path_to_your_directory] && source [virtualenv_name]/bin/activate && python notifier.py >> ./notifier.log

Test

The notifier-test.py has the code changed to run a backtest from a match from the 2018 world cup. It uses the wordcipData-test.json which contains a match between Uruguay and Fracen.

cd [path_to_your_directory] && source [virtualenv_name]/bin/activate && python notifier-test.py

Credits And Useful Resources:

• Worldcup Slack Bot in PHP https://github.com/j0k3r/worldcup-slack-bot/blob/master/worldCupNotifier.php
• Building a World Cup Bot with Python, Twilio SMS and Slack https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/07/building-a-world-cup-bot-with-python-twilio-sms-and-slack.html