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Jeopardy Scraper

James Holzhauer has been on a Streak of continually winning Jeopardy. There is a site called TheJeopardyFan.com that blogs results of Jeopardy games.

I wrote a simple script using Puppeteer to extract data from the site including the current day's winnings, current streak, and total winnings for James.

There are plenty of kinks in the scraper currently such as if James does not play a day for some event on Jeopardy or if the blog post hasn't been published that day. This will be improved over time.

How to run

Clone this repo down
Install dependencies (yarn install or npm install)
Run the script: node index.js

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jeopardyscraper's Issues

Alexa / Google Assistant support

It would be neat to say things like the following:

"Ask Jeopardy Scraper how much James has won?"
"Ask Jeopardy Scraper how much did James win today?"
"Ask Jeopardy Scraper how many days James has been playing for?"
etc.

Store Data in some DB

Store the daily data in something like Firebase or DynamoDB.

Containerize scraper

Wrap this in a Docker container so it can be easily run without necessarily needing to download dependencies directly on a machine but rather in a container that can be easily blown away.

Grab last day's results if show hasn't aired today

If the current day's round hasn't aired, grab the last day's results. For Tuesday through Friday I can subtract a day to get the day. For Monday, I will have to subtract 3 days.

I am thinking of using a fetch request to the site and if it doesn't return a 200 OK response, then subtract the time amount and run through the scraper

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