@FRCFMS Twitter feed

[David8696]

According to this post, the FRCFMS Twitter feed might not exist this year. Can anyone provide more details on this (preferably a refutation because oh crap)?

And if it's true, does anyone have a recommendation on where to scrape match data from? As far as I know, FRC Tracker and FRC Spyder *both* get their data from the Twitter feed. I've spent some time this offseason working on a program that's meant to get its data from the feed as well. Where should I go if it doesn't exist?

Please, please, please someone tell me I'm wrong, and if I'm not, I'd really appreciate help with how to deal with it.

[cgmv123]

Start here: http://frc-events.usfirst.org/

[plnyyanks]

I think it's pretty safe to say @FRCFMS won't be a thing this year (unless it becomes active tomorrow).

If you want the data in real-time, The Blue Alliance API includes webhooks, where TBA will push a POST request to your server whenever a match score gets posted, say. You can be notified about these events. This lets you avoid polling an API repeatedly. You can also sign up for the "firehose" - get notified for data about every event in a year on the Account Overview Page, subscription tab.

However, if you need more static data, the TBA API can give you that, as well.

Originally Posted by cgmv123

Start here: http://frc-events.usfirst.org/

I wouldn't rely on scraping those pages this year, take a look at this comment in the source

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[Jared Russell]

I think they could have done a better job on that FRC logo ASCII art. Aspect ratio is all out of whack.

[Hallry]

I guess this means that CD's "FRC Spy" feature will no longer work?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

I think they could have done a better job on that FRC logo ASCII art. Aspect ratio is all out of whack.

And it doesn't follow their own logo use guidelines... sloppy work.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I guess this means that CD's "FRC Spy" feature will no longer work?

Yeah, I guess not

[Dave Flowerday]

FRC Spyder will be attempting to replicate the old @FRCFMS Twitter feed. Details here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=135214