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World Cup results for hackers

56 points by fatiherikli 12y ago

deathwithme 12y ago
great app for fans who like football and hacker things at the same time :)
poseid 12y ago
nice! I was playing with a similar setup in JavaScript and ArangoDB some days ago: http://thinkingonthinking.com/commonjs-for-databases/ http://thinkingonthinking.com/commonjs-for-databases/
thromba 12y ago
awwwwwesome.
criswell 12y ago
This would be pretty cool for sports in general. I wonder what the demand is like.
nebulous1 12y ago
This was actually posted already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907070
- fatiherikli 12y ago
  Not the same thing.
  - nebulous1 12y ago
    oh, yeah!
0003 12y ago
How come you switch between % operator and str.format method when string formatting?
- fatiherikli 12y ago
  I used that for text alignment functionalities. https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-examples https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-example...
scope 12y 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 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!
dvirsky 12y 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.
- jerrysievert 12y ago
  not just gnome, iterm as well. it appears as if watch doesn't support terminal color escaping correctly.
  - fatiherikli 12y ago
    I'll look this problem. Thanks for your report.
  - teraflop 12y ago
    "watch -c" fixes this.
    - jerrysievert 12y ago
      only if you're using bash, unfortunately. i know, i'm an outlier, but i've found fish to be quite useable.
    - dvirsky 12y ago
      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)
llamataboot 12y ago
Thanks for using the http://worldcup.sfg.io http://worldcup.sfg.io API and making something cool! From one tinkerer to another, I salute you :)
- fatiherikli 12y 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 12y ago
  The API looks great! Is there any way to include yellow & red cards, as well as timestamps for these events?
  - llamataboot 12y 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 http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/matches
    - gry 12y ago
      The ToS in section 5.10 seems to address it: http://www.fifa.com/legal/tos.html 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.
matt_morgan 12y ago
THANK YOU! Fifa is doing such a crappy job online. This is perfect.
- petepete 12y ago
  Fifa, doing a crappy job? I refuse to believe it!
mixologic 12y ago
How come mine is an hour off? I just ran it and it says that Australia/Netherlands will be in 38 minutes?
- bshimmin 12y ago
  Opened as an issue here: https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup/issues/5 https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup/issues/5
- owenversteeg 12y ago
  Yep, mine is off as well. It says Australia/Netherlands is 15 minutes in (right now it's 57 minutes in)
- matt_morgan 12y ago
  I bet this has something to do with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Brazil 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.
- llamataboot 12y ago
  Yes, matches in Brazil take place in two separate time zones, We need to check the location and fix.
abuzzooz 12y 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_morgan 12y 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_morgan 12y 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 12y ago
Crossposting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908081 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 https://gist.github.com/abiyani/34f25dc8ed2a862517e7 Sample output: abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]
hpoydar 12y ago
A Ruby version (gem): https://github.com/hpoydar/worldcup-2014 https://github.com/hpoydar/worldcup-2014

56 points by fatiherikli 12y ago

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

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

thromba 12y ago

awwwwwesome.

criswell 12y ago

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

nebulous1 12y ago

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

fatiherikli 12y ago
Not the same thing.
- nebulous1 12y ago
  oh, yeah!

0003 12y ago

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

fatiherikli 12y ago
I used that for text alignment functionalities. https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-examples https://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#format-example...

scope 12y 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 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!

dvirsky 12y 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.

jerrysievert 12y ago
not just gnome, iterm as well. it appears as if watch doesn't support terminal color escaping correctly.
- fatiherikli 12y ago
  I'll look this problem. Thanks for your report.
- teraflop 12y ago
  "watch -c" fixes this.
  - jerrysievert 12y ago
    only if you're using bash, unfortunately. i know, i'm an outlier, but i've found fish to be quite useable.
  - dvirsky 12y ago
    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)

llamataboot 12y ago

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

fatiherikli 12y 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 12y ago
The API looks great! Is there any way to include yellow & red cards, as well as timestamps for these events?
- llamataboot 12y 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 http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/matches
  - gry 12y ago
    The ToS in section 5.10 seems to address it: http://www.fifa.com/legal/tos.html 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.

matt_morgan 12y ago

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

petepete 12y ago
Fifa, doing a crappy job? I refuse to believe it!

mixologic 12y ago

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

bshimmin 12y ago
Opened as an issue here: https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup/issues/5 https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup/issues/5
owenversteeg 12y ago
Yep, mine is off as well. It says Australia/Netherlands is 15 minutes in (right now it's 57 minutes in)
matt_morgan 12y ago
I bet this has something to do with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Brazil 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.
llamataboot 12y ago
Yes, matches in Brazil take place in two separate time zones, We need to check the location and fix.

abuzzooz 12y 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_morgan 12y 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_morgan 12y 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 12y ago

Crossposting from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908081 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 https://gist.github.com/abiyani/34f25dc8ed2a862517e7 Sample output: abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]

hpoydar 12y ago

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