rezffa

Scrape results from FFA (Fédération Française d'Athlétisme)

installation

Development stuff for installing some pip packages:

[user@server][~] sudo apt install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev

clone project

[user@server][~] git clone git@github.com:ldvc/rezffa.git

virtualenv

Create folder for future venvs: [user@server][~] mkdir -p ~/.virtualenvs && cd ~/.virtualenvs

Create venv: user@server][.virtualenvs] virtualenv -p python3 venv_rezffa

Enable virtualenv: source ~/.virtualenvs/venv_rezffa/bin/activate

Install dependencies: pip install -r ~/github/rezffa/requirements.txt

usage

You can override default config by creating a local_config.py file.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 sw=4 ts=4 et:


# general
PATH = '/var/www/html/domain.tld/ffa/'

one-time run

Then, run ./rezffa.py -n 424242 (in virtualenv) to retrieve results for club with number 424242.

scheduling

Create a cron job for automatic retrieving twice a week (Mon and Thu for instance):

[user@server][~] cat /etc/cron.d/rezffa
# Use the hash sign to prefix a comment
# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12)
# |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  0 17 * * 1,4 user /home/user/.virtualenvs/venv_rezffa/bin/python ~user/github/rezffa/rezffa.py -n 424242 > /dev/null 2>&1