FRC-Spy

[Zach O]

This will update automatically by the F.I.R.S.T. twitter? That's so cool

[Tom Line]

Ok. The XML is opening now rather than giving me an error. Perhaps I was was just too quick and the site hadn't updated yet.

When we download the XML, will it contain every match played so far, or just the last 50?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

Ok. The XML is opening now rather than giving me an error. Perhaps I was was just too quick and the site hadn't updated yet.

When we download the XML, will it contain every match played so far, or just the last 50?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/frcspy.php?xml=2 will give you everything

change the integer at the end to get the # you need. (must be > 2, for now)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/frcspy.php?xml=5 will give you the last 5

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/frcspy.php?xml=25 will give you the last 25

etc.


Right now, this data will be approx. 30 seconds behind the twitter feed.

[Greg Marra]

Brandon,

Does it make sense to release this code so other people can look at it and offer suggestions?

[Uberbots]

im thinking TBA should link off of some of this data to get the real time score updates, too (: (though im pretty sure im not the first to think of this)

maybe even some charts of moonrocks/minute, total penalties, g14 infractions, etc

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Uberbots

im thinking TBA should link off of some of this data to get the real time score updates, too (: (though im pretty sure im not the first to think of this)

maybe even some charts of moonrocks/minute, total penalties, g14 infractions, etc

We scrape the official USFIRST score pages in real-time, so parsing the Twitter data would be just another way of getting at information we already know.

Also, I am not sure how to map "Elimination 20" to "Semifinal 1 Match 2". The Twitter data seems to use sequential numbers for Elims, which doesn't work as well as the Qual numbers do.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Brandon,

Does it make sense to release this code so other people can look at it and offer suggestions?

It's pretty ugly (did it real quick yesterday) .. I may release some of it, eventually.

Pulling the data from twitter is just using magpierss to grab the twitter rss feed for the account (http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/20603824.rss) which seems to update as fast as any API call (based on my 1 quick 'test' .. that may need to be fixed if it gets too far behind). Once I grab the rss, I do a very crude parsing of the string and 'replace into' a database (keyed off an md5() of the 'pubDate' in the rss).

The front end just displays the last 50 rows .. and has an Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater w/decay that cycles that data to the user way more than it needs to. When I get free time, I'll work on a better way to only send down new data every request .. not all data.

[Zach O]

Can you please explain what colum means what? Also, is the moon rock score by just robot or robots and humans?

Edit: Also, how reliable is the data?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Can you please explain what colum means what? Also, is the moon rock score by just robot or robots and humans?

Edit: Also, how reliable is the data?

Not sure what you mean by "colum"

The moon rocks columns show the number of moonrocks score by the alliance (humans + robots) under E and the number of Supercells scored under S.

The data is pulled off of a Twitter feed that is updated by the official scoring software so it should be accurate.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Not sure what you mean by "colum"

The moon rocks columns show the number of moonrocks score by the alliance (humans + robots) under E and the number of Supercells scored under S.

The data is pulled off of a Twitter feed that is updated by the official scoring software so it should be accurate.

Sounds good. Thank you for the answer

[ehochstein]

Did you ever think of making the blue a little darker? It's kind of hard to see on some computers and hurts my eyes >.<

Just a suggestion, It looks great!!!