Twilio WhatsApp Bot - NCAA March Madness

🤖 This bot updates subscribers after each men's NCAA March Madness game. Each update includes (1) the game's final score and (2) the standings of the group's Yahoo Fantasy bracket.

Features & Design

• Node.js + Express.
• Twilio WhatsApp API to send messages to subscribers.
• Sportradar API for NCAA data.
• Puppeteer Node library to scrape Yahoo Fantasy bracket.

TODOS

• properly handle Puppeteer timeouts
• implement windows scheduler instead of setInterval()

Setup

Sign up for Twilio, add Whatsapp number, set-up sandbox

Run npm install in root directory

Change .env.sample to .env and replace the following with your variables:

• TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=your-twilio-sid-here
• TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=your-twilio-auth-token-here
• TWILIO_SANDBOX_NUMBER=your-twilio-sandbox-number-here
• SPORTRADAR_API_KEY=your-sportradar-api-key-here
• GOOGLE_EMAIL=your-yahoo-fantasy-sign-in-info-here
• GOOGLE_PASSWORD=your-yahoo-fantasy-sign-in-info-here
• PHONE_NUMBER_1=subscriber-number-here
• PHONE_NUMBER_2=etc...

Update CSS-selectors and XPaths in getBracketStandings.js to webscrape your specific Yahoo Fantasy Bracket.

Deployment

Bot:

• Run node marchMadnessBot.js from root directory.

Backend server for responding to subscriber messages:

• Deploy server.js and point your Twilio sandbox endpoint url to the server.