SPORTSBALL

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

I am personally running the script called google.py as it seems more reliable than the API's tested. It's also more basic, which is probably why the API's are having more trouble sorting the information. This, however, means that I am spending little to no time on the other updaters, but feel free to fork away or send me a PR if you want any updates for yourself.

Setup

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

{
  "slack_instances": [
    {
      "webhook": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/your/webhook/here",
      "channel": "#wc2018"
      "participants": {
            "Argentina": "Jason",
            "Australia": "Euan",
            "Belgium": "Ian",
            ...
            "Switzerland": "Russ",
            "Tunisia": "Neil",
            "Uruguay": "Gill"
        }
    }
  ],
  "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

Optionally, a participants array can be added to slack_instance. Countries will then be substituted for the country name followed by the name in brackets in the Slack message

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.