Baseball Discord bot that can post up-to-date scores, lineups, and home runs. Uses webscraping techniques to scrape baseball data from various websites in real time to respond to commands.
This bot has three primary functionalities: retrieving scores, lineups, and home runs.
To retrieve all scores for the current day, use the command >scores. This will post an image for each matchup today.
To retrieve the score for a single team for the current day, use the command >score {team's 3-letter abbreviation}. This will post a single image of that team's matchup, if they have a matchup for today.
To retrieve all lineups for the current day, use the command >lineups. This will post an image for each matchup's lineups today.
To retrieve the lineup for a single team for the current day, use the command >lineup {team's 3-letter abbreviation}. This will post a single image of that team's lineup, if they have a game for today.
Between 11am and midnight CT, every 15 minutes this bot will scrape the five most recent home runs, compare these against previous home runs, and post new home runs that have occurred.
Several steps should be taken prior to activating this bot to ensure your system will be able to run it without error.
This bot was designed to work on a Linux server and therefore has some features that are only compatible with Linux. With several changes (removing the daemonization process), the program can be altered to work on Windows or Mac.
This bot uses Selenium to scrape data from the internet. Selenium uses a webdriver to utlize a system's existing web browser to simulate a user accessing the website. The bot is designed to work with a Chrome based browser (Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, etc.), but can be altered to work with Firefox, Safari, or Opera.
To use a different browser, make the necessary changes in baseball_spider.py's _prep_driver() function. Otherwise, ensure that a chrome-based browser is downloaded to its default location (/usr/bin/chromium-browser for Chromium on Ubuntu).
You will need to create a .env file in your working directory. This file needs to contain four things:
- DISCORD_TOKEN={The token for your bot}
- DISCORD_GUILD={The name of the guild your bot will be hosted on}
- DISCORD_TARGET_CHANNEL={The channel ID you want the bot to post scheduled updates}
- DISCORD_NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL={The channel ID where the bot should notify that updates have occurred}
Be sure to install all libraries in requirements.txt via pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the bot simply type python bot.py while in the working directory of this project. If all the steps were properly followed in the setup section, you should see the bot connect to the webdriver and then begin waiting.
Log files are generated for this bot and stored in the logs folder. They will log every action the bot performs, every error that occurs, and the time these events took place.
A new log file is generated for each time the bot is spun up. An example of a log can be found here