sasha

• scraper for vlr.gg upcoming matches
  • save matches information to DynamoDB
    • this is to be the source data of dima, API for upcoming matches
    • alternatively you can run locally with standard output
  • named after the real name of Valorant agent Sova 🦉🏹

Data format: sample

{
  "id": 213198,
  "startTime": "2023-05-28T15:00:00+0000",
  "bestOf": "5",
  "eventCountryFlag": "de",
  "eventName": "Champions Tour 2023: EMEA League",
  "matchName": "Playoffs: Grand Final",
  "pagePath": "/213198/fnatic-vs-team-liquid-champions-tour-2023-emea-league-gf",
  "teams": [
    {
      "title": "FNATIC"
    },
    {
      "title": "Team Liquid"
    }
  ]
}

Provisioning as Lambda Function (with State Machine)

You can use AWS SAM to provision this application.

cd sasha/
sam build
sam deploy --guided --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Running Locally

You can run locally with passing --page argument to scrape matches in a specific page.

go run *.go --page 1

Output is json formatted.

[{"id":399763,"matchName":"Group Stage: Round 6","startDate":"2024-09-15","startTime":"2024-09-15T19:00:00+0000","bestOf":3,"teams":[{"title":"RETA Esports"},{"title":"Galorys"}],"pagePath":"/399763/reta-esports-vs-galorys-champions-tour-2024-americas-ascension-r6","eventName":"Champions Tour 2024 Americas: Ascension","eventCountryFlag":"mx"},...]