lemmy-nhl 1.5.11

bot to add live scores to lemmy community for hockey games

A few things to note currently:

Without modifying files, there is currently no way to test this. I've tested that it works with old data, and will be testing/ fixing whatever needs it during the first preseason game of the Flyers (or earlier if someone reports an issue before this).

lemmy_nhl_bot

nhl linescore grabber/poster for lemmy. This app is meant to be run in the background to routinely add scores, standings, and team stats to a lemmy community focusing on a specific hockey team (standings are league wide, as is the draft function). After being configured, the main app is run in the background. It will check weekly for an updated schedule. Once per week (currently set to Sunday), it will post an updated League-wide standings page, and an updated team stats page. Once game days, it will start automatically at game time, and post scores and time updates every five seconds.

Docker image

There is a branch of this repo to aid in building a Docker image. To build and install with docker:

Download the following to a directory: (these are available on the release page beginning with 1.5.1) Dockerfile config.py

run:

python3 config.py

docker build -t lemmy_nhl_bot .

docker run lemmy_nhl_bot &

Building:

This script requires the following to be installed from pip: plemmy, requests, json, build

pip install plemmy >= 0.3.0 source is https://github.com/tjkessler/plemmy/ Many thanks for tjkessler for the simple to use library!

pip install requests

pip install json

pip install build

Build the .whl

git clone https://github.com/socphoenix/lemmy_nhl_bot.git

cd lemmy_nhl_bot

git checkout dev

Linux (FreeBSD use python3.9): python3 -m build . --wheel

cd dist

pip install lemmy_nhl-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl

Usage:

Before starting lemmy_nhl_daemon, please make sure to run config.py! It is needed to save your login token and teamID/community Name. Without these the script will not work!

Run config.py:

Linux: lemmy_nhl_config

FreeBSD: lemmy_nhl_config ##This requires path set. for sh (default shell): "PATH=${PATH}:/home/'put user here'/.local/bin" "export PATH" (as an interesting note, python seems to only add the path to the root user during install)

Configuration Options:

Server: Which server the bot will connect to e.g.(https://enterprise.lemmy.ml)

username: account name of the bot (please don't use your normal account for this bot! it's bad practice. Create a bot account instead)

password: Where your password should go

teamID: pick your team number from the options listed e.g.(4 for the Philadelphia Flyers)

Community: name of the community you are posting to

isMod: This bot can't pin posts or run the schedule bot without moderator privileges on the community

bots: select y on the first prompt to enable them all. The bots are:

- stats: post a selection of stats from your selected team once per week (Sunday)

- standings: post league-wide standings to the community once per week (Sunday)

- schedule: Every Sunday update the sidebar with the next weeks games (note this assumes it can cut and replace anything
   that comes after a "*** " mark on the sidebar. It will preserve everything before that like community rules)

- linescore: This will check for a game in progress every 5 minutes, and then create/pin a post to the community
    that displays time left, goals broken up by period, shots on goal broken up by period, if a team is on the powerplay,
    any video highlights the api will give, and after the game adds a recap to the game post before unpinning the post.

** note on bots. Current version will check and only start/run stats/standings beginning in October.

run daemon

Linux:

lemmy_nhl_daemon &

FreeBSD: daemon lemmy_nhl_daemon

Docker: docker run lemmy_nhl (or whatever you named the container image during building)

run draft bot

Unix: lemmy_nhl_draft

See it in action!

To see what the bot can currently do, look here: pinned game, stats, standings

Shared Libraries

This uses the Plemmy library, which is also released under the Apache 2.0 license. Many thanks to tjkessler for the simple to use library!