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56 pointsfatiherikli35 comments

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.

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

"watch -c" fixes this.

Thanks, this fixes some of the problems, but I'm still seeing some weird unicode square shapes (that appear when I'm not running in watch as well)

only if you're using bash, unfortunately. i know, i'm an outlier, but i've found fish to be quite useable.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The ToS in section 5.10 seems to address it:

http://www.fifa.com/legal/tos.html

  5.10 If You wish to use or display any FIFA feeds / FIFA APIs on Your website:

  (a) FIFA grants to You a non-transferable, royalty free, non-exclusive license to
  display such feeds on Your website subject to these Terms;
  
  (b) You expressly agree: (i) to ensure that the FIFA feed / FIFA API does not
  state or imply that FIFA approves of, sponsors or endorses any other website 
  activity, company or entity, resource, content, or presents FIFA and/or its 
  activities in a false, misleading, defamatory or derogatory manner or otherwise 
  damages FIFA's reputation or takes advantage of it; and (ii) to properly attribute
  the FIFA feeds used to FIFA to avoid any misappropriation or confusion;
  
  (c) where possible, You must create a functional link back to the FIFA story or
  other material summarized by the relevant FIFA feed.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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]

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!

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

I used that for text alignment functionalities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

awwwwwesome.

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

Not the same thing.

oh, yeah!

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