Soccer game time chatbot app

Laravel 5.5.43 (PHP 7.0) / MySQL

Front-end Angular 6 repo: https://github.com/nothingtoocrazy/chatbot-frontend

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TODO:

• configure CORS

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Ideas

• For each game, display which network (fox/nbcsn/espn) is hosting the game and provide links to take you right to the game. Always have 'r/soccerstreams' as a fallback.
• This site does some similar things. For content inspiration (not design - the design is bad): https://www.livesoccertv.com/

Schedule to sync data from football-data API to DB

• Leagues: once a year
• Teams: once a year
• Matches: daily at midnight
• Day-of matches: direct API call

Action plan

• Find APIs to get game times

• Figure out what format we get data in and create database tables

• Start Creating UI to display game times

• Populate database with dummy data

• Display dummy data from front end

• Flesh out team/league data in DB

• Start caching game time data in database

• Build out specific game time info, links, etc

• Add UI flexibility to restrict game info to specific teams/regions/leagues?

• Add cron job to collect game time info for database.

• Integrate basic chat bot functionality for specific game time questions

• User specific data stored? So each user has certain league games that show.

• Chat bot extra features?

Long-term

We want to let the user enter a human-readable question. Interpret what they are asking, and collect the data and serve it back to them.

for Day of games: Consider webhooks to update data when important events happen ( like game finished or Goals scored);