/rugbyvaultbackend

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The Rugby Vault

A rugby union website highlight that collects match and try highlights.

Environments

The application was developed on MacOS Catalina and has been tested on all newer versions of MacOS.

Prerequisites

  • python3
  • pip3

Installing

How to get started with the rugby vault back-end

  1. Clone Repository
git clone https://github.com/rhysmaiden/rugbyvaultbackend.git
  1. Download all project dependencies
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage Instructions

Start server

python3 manage.py runserver

Scheduled Scripts

Fetch the matches from ESPN and put them in the database for processing - Runs daily

python3 scraper_v2.py

Fetch youtube links for each of the matches created from the script above. - Runs daily

python3 find_youtube_links.py

Manual Processing

The tool for finding the time of tries in match highlights can be found at /tryprocessing

  1. Click the set current time button every time there is a transition between tries. This will populate the time from the youtube video into the form fields.
  2. Manually adjust times if there are any issues such as:
  • Videos of non-tries in the highlights
  • In large score games they don't always include every try
  1. If the video is not displaying or the video is from the incorrect match, click the error button.

Future Development

  • [] Remove database from git repository
  • [] Convert database to postgresql
  • [] Split api into multiple files
  • [] Find a way to split video files without human input

Built With

  • Django - The web framework used

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