IFPA or PinballMap API into Discord Bot?

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We’re kicking around the idea of a local Discord. Has anyone written any bots that query the IFPA or PinballMap APIs to post things to a Discord or Slack?

Use cases:

  • IFPA - New tournament registered within a certain location/radius
  • IFPA - Upcoming tournament reminder
  • IFPA - Results for a tournament posted
  • PinballMap - New machine shows up in a certain region
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I can’t help with the bots, but please add me to the discord unless it’s Delco only.

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Super interested in this if someone pulls it off

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In Slack, we haven’t used the pinball map api, but have used the @pinballmapcom twitter feed (which used the rss of machines added to locations).

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@Richthofen or @PressStart - are State Championship standings available through an API? I know I can see standings in the IFPA app, but didn’t know if state standings or the upcoming tournaments at a state level were available through an API.

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I totally forgot about this. If you link your Match Play user up for Slack notifications it does come with a couple of slash commands: /ifpa to search IFPA players and /tournaments to search Match Play for tournaments. I don’t think anyone uses them – I just added them way back when to see how it could all work

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OK, I’ve attempted to hack something together for Discord:

The IFPA Championship Series Discord Bot:

Link to add it into your server (need to be a Server Admin):

What it does:

  • Web scrapes the standings page for the State and Year you provide it
  • Returns Top 32 people in that state
  • It’s fairly brittle because it looks for specific CSS tags to get the table it needs
  • It only works for the NACS right now.
    • With a little bit of work I can make it work for the Australian series.
    • It won’t work for WNACS because those are custom rankings pages that don’t include the State/Province name in the URL; I’ll need a reference table to return the right pages.
    • It won’t work for many of the other country championship pages since those are mostly formatted differently; I don’t see a solution for this.

How it works:

Type $ifpachamps followed by the following two inputs:

  • Two-Letter State or Province Code
  • Year

I will attempt to return the top 32 players for the year requested.
Example: $ipfachamps PA 2022`

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I’m new to Discord and new to making bots, so if you have any feedback drop me a line.

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Yes, the undocumented v2 api supports State Championship standings. Check out the v2 api endpoints and models here:

PinballApi/PinballRankingApiV2.cs at master · edgiardina/PinballApi (github.com)

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Also, Corey, I absolutely love this. I’ve never written a Discord bot and now I totally want to. Well done.

IMHO it would be super rad if we just added $ifpa as the command and offered verbs. There’s so much data, and we could provide it all. or, can we do slash notation like /ifpa nacs ri 2021 ?

my discord is Pinball Dad#7848 if you wanna invite me and chat about it.

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LOL Corey you absolutely ruined my night

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Version Update:

I don’t know if anyone is using the bot yet, but last night I published an update to version 2.0.

  • Now includes the WNACS (Open and Women’s). It relies on data-scraping specific URLs from the website on the Custom Ranking page, and that’s maintained through a reference file.
  • Differentiated the command for NACS
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Sounds like you had a late night! I’ll add you on Discord and we can keep the conversation going there.