Can someone help us setting up automated thread for Euro 2024 matches in !football@lemmy.world?
from Blaze@reddthat.com to fediverse@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 08:23
https://reddthat.com/post/20297500

!football@lemmy.world

Community thread: lemmy.world/post/16292464

Basically, title.

There will be a few matches, especially at the beginning of the championship, so that would be nice to have a way to get them automatically created.

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Olap@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 09:26 next collapse

A csv of kick off times (in UTC) and who is playing would be helpful to whomever takes this up

EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Jun 09:29 next collapse

Do you have a data feed to pull from, or some kind of list of matches? It shouldn’t be too hard to use a simple python script to parse a file and post automatically on a schedule. I maintain a repo that doesn’t exactly match your use case, but I could maybe add your functionality depending on complexity

Microw@lemm.ee on 08 Jun 11:10 collapse

Well the thing about a tournament is that of course we cant know the team pairings of quarterfinals etc until the games before have been played. So we would need a source that updates itself with that info

Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Jun 10:23 next collapse

schedule.lemmings.world Wouldn’t this do the job? Unless you need to automatically fetch some data then idk.

Blaze@reddthat.com on 08 Jun 10:58 collapse

Ideally the automated post would also pull the teams name from a source and put them in the threads titles

bobburger@fedia.io on 08 Jun 11:01 next collapse

This Git repo has a list of hidden ESPN APIs that might be useful for automatically pulling data.

Blaze@reddthat.com on 08 Jun 13:59 collapse

Great, thanks!

UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev on 08 Jun 11:24 next collapse

Have you tried talking to the mods over at r/soccer how they have set up their match threads? I think they are pulling live updates from ESPN.

mozz@mbin.grits.dev on 08 Jun 12:55 collapse

I was gonna spend time today on the movies bot, I can do a footie bot at the same time if you like?

Blaze@reddthat.com on 08 Jun 13:59 collapse

Oh that would be great!

For the movies bot, do you plan to use it for !movies@lemm.ee , !movies@lemmy.world , both?

We’ve been trying to have regular threads on !movies@lemm.ee , but we could definitely use a bot to track them more closely

mozz@mbin.grits.dev on 08 Jun 18:50 collapse

Oh no have I gotten myself involved into a community drama

My plan was the lemmy.world community but I have no real objection to doing it for both, and then it'll get detected as a cross post, and displayed once to people who are seeing either or both communities. (This operating on the assumption that it's wanted on the lemm.ee community also.) How's that sound? I just don't want anyone to yell at me

Blaze@reddthat.com on 08 Jun 19:15 collapse

Hello again,

Sorry you feel like you are getting caught in a drama.

That sounds great! Can I create a thread on !movies@lemm.ee so that we can keep discussing this, or do you have a Matrix / XMPP address that we can use to chat for potential debugging of the bot? I would normally DM you but unfortunately I’m pretty sure DMs do not federate between Lemmy and Mbin

mozz@mbin.grits.dev on 08 Jun 20:15 collapse

Yeah, creating a thread for it sounds good. I'm looking at it now 👍🏻. I have matrix but pretty rarely use it

Blaze@reddthat.com on 08 Jun 20:19 next collapse
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