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