World Cup results for hackers

by fatiherikli • 12 years ago

56 35 12 years ago

great app for fans who like football and hacker things at the same time :)

poseid• 12 years ago

nice! I was playing with a similar setup in JavaScript and ArangoDB some days ago: http://thinkingonthinking.com/commonjs-for-databases/

thromba• 12 years ago

awwwwwesome.

criswell• 12 years ago

This would be pretty cool for sports in general. I wonder what the demand is like.

nebulous12• 12 years ago

This was actually posted already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907070

fatiherikli4• 12 years ago

Not the same thing.

nebulous12• 12 years ago

oh, yeah!

0003• 12 years ago

How come you switch between % operator and str.format method when string formatting?

fatiherikli4• 12 years ago

I used that for text alignment functionalities.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-example...

scope• 12 years ago

am gonna try n' steal your thunder, it's not as fancy as yours but me and a couple of friends created a league

http://moeduffdude.github.io/PIFA

I feed it the JSON and it does the calculations automatically - it's nice I get to have a 30 day streak :)

go Germany!

dvirsky2• 12 years ago

If you want this to remain on some side terminal and update constantly, you can of course run "watch worldcup today". And I like that the command actually makes sense :)

On a side note, in Gnome terminal, the formatting characters appear as some unicode garbage.

jerrysievert2• 12 years ago

not just gnome, iterm as well. it appears as if watch doesn't support terminal color escaping correctly.

fatiherikli4• 12 years ago

I'll look this problem. Thanks for your report.

teraflop• 12 years ago

"watch -c" fixes this.

llamataboot4• 12 years ago

Thanks for using the http://worldcup.sfg.io API and making something cool! From one tinkerer to another, I salute you :)

fatiherikli4• 12 years ago

Good to see your comment here :) I was very excited when I saw your project and blog post. Many thanks for this great job.

girmad• 12 years ago

The API looks great! Is there any way to include yellow & red cards, as well as timestamps for these events?

llamataboot4• 12 years ago

I am looking at including more information right now, but I welcome pull requests of course! When I built it it was just a quick and dirty API for goals and standings, but it can obv include more information. There is an "official" FIFA API that includes all that info, but the legality of building your own app with it is unclear to me, and it seems largely undocumented.

http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/matches

llamataboot4• 12 years ago

New branch pushed that includes cards and goals and subs, not live yet though - RABL output needs a little work, and while I'm grabbing the player, I haven't been able to grab the timestamp yet. Feel free to check it out.

dmoo• 12 years ago

Another thanks, I will have kids at my local coderdojo using the api tonight!

matt_morgan4• 12 years ago

THANK YOU! Fifa is doing such a crappy job online. This is perfect.

petepete• 12 years ago

Fifa, doing a crappy job? I refuse to believe it!

mixologic• 12 years ago

How come mine is an hour off? I just ran it and it says that Australia/Netherlands will be in 38 minutes?

bshimmin• 12 years ago

Opened as an issue here: https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup/issues/5

owenversteeg• 12 years ago

Yep, mine is off as well. It says Australia/Netherlands is 15 minutes in (right now it's 57 minutes in)

matt_morgan4• 12 years ago

I bet this has something to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Brazil

Basically, some parts of Brazil, including the location (Porto Alegre) of the Australia-Netherlands game, use daylight time while others do not. It looks like, for example, the time of Spain-Chile (in Rio, where there is no daylight time) is correct.

llamataboot4• 12 years ago

Yes, matches in Brazil take place in two separate time zones, We need to check the location and fix.

abuzzooz• 12 years ago

Great job. I have my own mongodb of the games/scores that I update manually (not in real time though).

I would love to see something automated like this for the major leagues (La Liga, BPL, Bundesliga, Serie A). I tried my hand at scraping the HTML of different sites, but found out that the main ones guard against that by changing their HTML periodically, so I gave up.

Side question: what does HN think in general about scraping data from HTML? There are websites that charge for live sports data, and scraping them seems borderline unethical.

matt_morgan4• 12 years ago

In the US at least, facts can't be protected with copyright, and sports scores & statistics have been judged facts. So you would be OK, and ethical. But avoid scraping/re-sharing anything of added value, like commentary or analysis.

I suspect rules in other countries vary.

matt_morgan4• 12 years ago

Maybe a TZ issue in there somewhere? Australia-Netherlands is still saying "Will be played after 29 seconds from now" with the score at 1-1. I'm in EDT, btw. I bet Brazil does not use daylight time?

anuragbiyani• 12 years ago

Crossposting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908081.

A small bash script to display the current match scores as part of the terminal prompt: https://gist.github.com/abiyani/34f25dc8ed2a862517e7

Sample output:

  abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]

hpoydar• 12 years ago

A Ruby version (gem): https://github.com/hpoydar/worldcup-2014

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