Node JS worker to update a slack channel with live match details from the 2018 world cup
- Match start
- Match end
- Score Change
- Match events (penalty, card, goal, ...)
Will report once a day on the following:
- Upcoming matches today
- Matches completed today (+scores)
- Matches coming tomorrow
The bot includes a Heroku Procfile, usable with Heroku free tier (Hobby dev) Dynos. Note if you are running on Heroku you'll need to scale your web dyno to 0 (or it will crash because there isn't a web server connected to a port) and your worker dyno to 1 (to actually start the worker).
You'll only have to do this after your first deploy:
heroku ps:scale web=0 worker=1
SLACKHOOK - Slack webhook URL.
TIMEZONE - Your timezone for time reporting. (Ex: 'UTC', 'USA/Chicago', default: 'Asia/Jerusalem')
BOT_NAME - Bot name that should appear in slack (default: 'Cup Bot')
BOT_ICON - Icon URL for the bot to use in slack
NODE_ENV - If set to dev / development will start in dev mode, and post to dev channel
DEBUG_CHANNEL - Slack channel to post to in dev mode (default: #wc-debug)
SLACK_CHANNEL - Slack channel to post to in production mode (default: #worldcup)
Any and all contribution is more than welcome. This was just a quick project, and there's a lot of room for improvement.
A huge shout out to http://worldcup.sfg.io/ for the FIFA scraper (estiens/world_cup_json), which he was quick to fix after the games started!
This was written in a rush the day World Cup in 2018 started. This is not good or proper code. This project is based on a scraper, and scraping is inherently a messy and brittle procedural process. My primary goal was the get something functional. Please do not use as an example of good Node.js code!