Footbal Notifications bot

This is a bot that sends notifications about football matches to Twitter.

Notifications

• When a match is about to start
• When a match starts
• Match events:
  • Goals
  • Yellow/Red cards
  • Substitutions
• When a match ends

Setup

For getting this bot running locally you need to have a few things:

• Create an account on API-Football and get an API key and URL.
• A Twitter account and a Twitter app. You can get them here. You need to get the API key, API secret key, Access token and Access token secret.
• Select the league from which you want to get the matches. You can find the league ID here.
• Setup all the mentioned values in an environment file. You can use the .env.example file as a template.
• Install the dependencies with yarn or npm install.

Run

The app start running yarn start or npm start. The app will make 1 request for getting the matches and 1 request per minute for each live match.

Tests

You can run the tests with yarn test or npm test.

Production bot

@FIFAWCBot

Built with

• API-Football
• Typescript
• Twitter API
• Axios