wasthereannhlgameyesterday?

WasThereAnNhlGameYesterday?

Print YES or NO!

Usage

endpoint	function	format	example	admin
/$TEAM	YES/NO	HTML*	RedWings
/$CITYTEAM	YES/NO	HTML*	DetroitRedWings
/$CITY	YES/NO	HTML*	Detroit
/$SHORT	YES/NO	HTML*	DET
/$DATE/$TEAM	YES/NO	HTML*	20171022/RedWings
/$TEAM/$DATE	YES/NO	HTML*	RedWings/20171111
/get_schedule	Print Schedule	JSON
/version	Print Schedule Update Time	JSON/ISODATE	{ "version": "2018-01-27T08:57:00.372800" }
/menu	Present user with a clickable menu	HTML
/update_schedule	Update Schedule		202 on changed	Y

* If you use Curl, Wget or Python-Urllib then all you get is YES or NO

Examples

case insensitive:

• https://wtangy.se
• https://wtangy.se/det
• https://wtangy.se/redwings
• https://wtangy.se/nyrangers
• https://wtangy.se/Vgk
• https://wtangy.se/newyorkrangers
• https://wtangy.se/20171222
• https://wtangy.se/22-12-2017
• https://wtangy.se/22-12-2017/DET
• https://wtangy.se/lak/20171014
• https://wtangy.se/foo/20171014
• https://wtangy.se/foo/20170901

What do these mean?

• Not choosing anything just tells you if there was a game yesterday
• Choosing a team means you only get YES if that team played yesterday.
• Choosing a date means you only get YES if there is a game on that date.
• Choosing a team and a date you only get YES if the chosen team plays/played on that date.
• Choosing a team incorrectly and a date correctly you only get YES if there was/is a game on that date

There's also:

• https://wtangy.se/menu # select a team
• https://wtangy.se/get_schedule # get the schedule this website uses in JSON
• https://wtangy.se/update_schedule # for admins only
• https://wtangy.se/version # tells when the backend schedule was last updated

Features

• Persistent team selection using HTML5 Web Storage. If you choose a team in the menu and you later revisit https://wtangy.se (from the same browser) you'll see the result for that team.
• This works with the new NHL.com website (2017-)

Why?

So I(author) live in a timezone where the NHL games are often over at 5am in the morning, sometimes they start then. I tend to watch replays. I'm not always sure if there was a game yesterday. Schedules online often have the results, news or "yes, also it went to overtime" to spoil the game.

It would be really nice if I could just browse to $URL/team and it would tell me if my team played yesterday or during Stanley Cup (or regular season) $URL would be enough to just tell me if there was a game at all.

Now there is! :)

How to update the schedule inside the scripts?

The schedule used by this web site is stored in the backend.

As an admin you can update it manually or configure a cronjob. It will send an e-mail with schedule changes outside playoffs.

What about regular season and playoffs?

It also worked for 2020-21 playoffs :)

Currently the script doesn't differentiate between playoffs and regular seasons.

It just takes the dates from NHL.com's API. There are more arguments to this API that I have not found any documentation for. Here's one result from google searches:

https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/schedule/startDate=2016-01-31&endDate=2016-02-05?expand=schedule.teams,schedule.linescore,schedule.broadcasts,schedule.ticket,schedule.game.content.media.epg&leaderCategories=&site=en_nhl&teamId=&

TODO / Known issues

• "BadRequestError: Admin message exceeds size limits" in update_schedule when there's a huge update
  • This is made so that if the size of the message body is too large we don't send it. One could perhaps email it as an attachment instead...
• Choosing background color - would be sweet if it could do HTML5 so users can choose themselves too like in https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp
• games include preseason - if this is a problem let me know!
• add a calendar selection too near the menu?
• proper logging
  • Don't print to stdout - https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/logs/#Python_writing_application_logs
  • We no longer print to stdout, so some imports could be removed?
  • could be nice if one could get debug errors to the browser console, rather than having to run the local app_devserver
  • Right now there's a few in the cloud console logs. More could be added
• dynamically generate a sitemap.xml
• Réal Names of cities:
  • querying Montréal Canadiens (so with the acute accent) is not currently working. Before https://github.com/martbhell/wasthereannhlgamelastnight/issues/9 MTL did not work at all
  • querying St. Louis Blues (so with the .) is not currently working. Without the dot and spaces work.
  • Ideally we would use the real names and not remove bad chars in the schedule ( in update_schedule.py )
• improve testing
  • assert that we are redirected to update_schedule
  • update schedule_testing and then verify it / validate json
  • performance testing
  • lint javascript,css,html

Source

gcloud - reminders for myself.

Forked from https://github.com/amanjeev/isitfridaythe13th because it had the google appspot already in it and python :) Thanks!

wasthereannhlgamelastnight(..) has been re-written a few times - it's no longer even close to the isitfridaythe13th, for example:

• it now uses webapp2 for example instead of python print to stdout.
• it used to have a manual NHL_schedule.py with a set and a list, now it reads and writes to gcloud object store!