ČBF ICAL

ČBF ICAL was created to export your teams basketball matches into icalendar format for you to import into your personal calendar (like Google Calendar, Outlook etc.) The idea is for this to be hosted on some server and for users to add this calendar by URL, allowing the calendar to refresh¹.
This project is written in python 3 and for the HTTP interface Flask is used. The data is read from ČBF

¹ From what I found Google Calendar updates approximately once 12-24 hours.

Usage

This app provides two main routes:\

• /cbf/find_team with params year and name, returning phase ids and team ids of specific team for given year. Right now only (case-insensitive) exact match is used. This can also take a lot of time, so you might need to set higher timeout limit on your server.

• /cbf/ical/<phase_id>/<team_id> returning the icalendar with match schedule itself. This is two optional arguments - use-emoji defining whether a basketball emoji (🏀) is used in the event name ² (default is true), and calendar-name for specifying calendar name put inside the icalendar (defualt is 'ČBF - rozpis zápasů').

² For use-emoji f, false, 0, t, true and 1 can be used.

How to set up on your own server

Right now the intended way is using mod_wsgi (or any other wsgi server) on your own server where you have terminal access. First you should install all the requirements for python 3 from requirements.txt (for example by running pip install -r requirements.txt)

TODO

Not everything is implemented perfectly and there is a lot of room for improvement. Here are some possible improvement:

• Create some HTML site that can be used to obtain link for specific schedule.
• Use some DB to store/cache some information, as finding where given team plays take quite some time.
• Better searching for a team by name (only substring can be supplied to match).
• Add calendar generation for referees.
• Create docker image for this, so it can be easily deployed.