This is a sports focused bot that can relay stat information regarding a player in real time via a POST call, and is meant to be run as a cron job anywhere that can run a serverless node function.
- On a schedule (defaulting to once per minute) the service will run
runPoller()insideindex.js. - This will trigger a service request to the database (more on that below) to get the information needed regarding the player and the stat currently being tracked.
- Another request will be made, and this time to the ESPN API to get the schedule and check if a game is in progress. (This step could be made more efficient by polling the schedule once a day and saving that data. Feel free to raise a PR 😊).
- Once it is determined that a game is currently taking place the service will make a request to get the real time stats for that game.
- If there is a change from the last poll then it will POST the result to the url specified
Scenarios in which the service will POST to the corresponding url: * Game Start * Player "fail" (Misses a shot, incompletion, missed field goal, etc.) * Player "success" (Makes a shot, Rebound, Turnover, Makes field goal, completes pass, etc.)
git clone git@github.com:kanestapler/ice-trae-bot-poller.git- Open
createDatabaseUtil.jsand change the AWS region and Table name to whatever you choose - Uncomment
createTable()and runnode createDatabaseUtil.js. Verify database was created - Fill in the player object with the data needed
- Uncomment
createPlayer()and runnode createDatabaseUtil.js. Verify player was added to database - Run
serverless deployto deploy this service to AWS. Make sure you have your local AWS set up properly - On the AWS console find the Lamda that was just deployed
- Scroll down to find the Environment Variables and add the key-value pairs below, but changed to match your environment
- API_TOKEN=super-secret-api-token
- BROADCAST_URL=http://localhost:3002
- PLAYER_ID=4277905
- Wait for a game to start for your player and hope it worked 😊