scoreboard

description

This scoreboard application allows spectators to monitor the Cyber Patriot scoreboard from the perspective of their own team and direct competition (i.e., county)

dependencies

The following system level libraries are required

• libxml2-dev
• libxslt1-dev
• libfreetype6-dev
• libxft-dev
• python3-tk

The following additional python packages are used:

• pandas
• matplotlib
• bs4
• tweepy

instructions

Install the app and its dependencies: python setup.py install

The usage is self-documenting:

usage: cpscoreboard.py [-h] [-a ALIAS] [-k KEYS KEYS KEYS KEYS] [-r REFRESH]
                       [-o OUTPUT] [-v]
                       url team
                       
positional arguments:
  url                   URL to the Scoreboard
  team                  Text file of team numbers to track (one per line

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a ALIAS, --alias ALIAS
                        CSV file of team numbers and name aliases.
  -k KEYS KEYS KEYS KEYS, --keys KEYS KEYS KEYS KEYS
                        Twitter API Keys (separated by space): ConsumerKey
                        SecretKey AccessToken AccessSecret)
  -r REFRESH, --refresh REFRESH
                        Refresh Interval (default: 60 seconds)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        File name for output journal (default: scoreboard.txt
                        in current directory)
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose logging (e.g., for troubleshooting).

The app uses tkinter and matplotlib to generate images of tables (i.e. to post to Twitter). If running on a server without a display interface, you might need to set the following environment variables:

export DISPLAY=:0.0
export MPLBACKEND="agg"