Pulling FIRST Data

[nardavin]

First of all, thank you to all of those who will give up a little of their time in order to help us resolve this problem!

Plasma Robotics is currently working on writing a web app. However, in order to do what we want, we need to pull some data from the FIRST servers. We know that this is possible, because sites like The Blue Alliance and apps like FRC spyder are able to pull these types of data.

For our application, we need to pull a couple different types of data from FIRST. First, we also need to be able to pull information about a given team (by number), such as their team name (aka. Plasma Robotics), their long name (sponsor list name), as well as their location (aka. Mesa Arizona). Also, we need to be able to pull certain information from the databases about a given regional, such as the rankings, attending teams, and the results to matches.

On the topic of regional rankings, we would like to take the information from the FIRST servers and input it into a form on our web app site, so that people that are using the app will be able to look at the rankings a lot easier within our app. An example is attached. The match information would be shown similarly to how the blue alliance shows the data.

We want to pull the teams that are attending any given regional so that we can input those into a <select> as <option> tags in HTML via a server side language (preferably PHP). The information about teams would be used for user profiling as well as showing information about other teams.

Also, we are currently writing our web app using an HTML base with PHP scripting and JS for AJAX.

Thank you for all of your help.

~NA and NS(EH)