MLB Condensed Games

A few functions to look for MLB Condensed Games from their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@MLB/videos using the RSS feed from https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCoLrcjPV5PbUrUyXq5mjc_A for that channel

1. lambdaCondensedGame.js - Checks whether a matching MLB highlights video is available for a given team
2. lambdaMonitor.js - Checks for newly posted matching highlights and sends a Slack message with the link

Condensed Game function

This function reads from the POSTed JSON formatted like:

{
	"params": {
		"team": "New York Mets"
	}
}

You must also send a HTTP header of MLBAPIRequest with a value set as an environment variable of the same name.

This will then:

1. Fetch the RSS feed for the YouTube RSS channel from https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCoLrcjPV5PbUrUyXq5mjc_A
2. Find the first entry containing the provided team name, mlb, and game highlights

Assuming that a game is found, the function then returns JSON like:

{
	"title": "Game Highlights: Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates",
	"url": "https://www.youtube.com/v/9lcxYA7yJBE",
	"id": "9lcxYA7yJBE" 
}

If no matching game is found, the function returns an empty JSON object.

Configuration - Environment variables

• MLBAPIRequest: The value to be sent in the header of any request

Monitoring function

This function saves the last found game data in an S3 bucket, and then is designed to run on a schedule to do the following:

• Looks at the ID in saved game data JSON from the last successful run
• If the ID matches the last found highlights data, we're done
• Otherwise, call the condensed game function and if the result has a title, id, and url:
  • Save the latest game data JSON to S3
  • Send a Slack message containing the title and URL

You can set up a schedule in CloudWatch to run every N minutes.

Configuration - Environment variables

• S3ACCESSKEYID: Access Key for the S3 bucket to save game data
• S3DATABUCKET: Name of the S3 bucket to save game data
• S3DATAFILE: Name of the file to save game data in
• S3SECRETACCESSKEY: Access Secret for the S3 bucket to save game data
• SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL: URL of the webhook to send the Slack message to
• TEAM: Team name to monitor e.g. "Mets"