[Meta] An update on the GDT bot!

Happy New Year, !hockey@lemmy.ca! 🎉

As you may have noticed, the game day thread bot is back up! 🥳 For anyone that missed it, it went down because the NHL dramatically changed their API, and a good portion of the bot needed to be rewritten. I have mostly updated the bot to use the new API. A couple of caveats: 1. They no longer provide data for which goalie was in net when a goal was scored. Currently this field is empty in the posts. I might remove the column entirely if I don't find a good way to get the data (without for example looping through the whole play by play just for this one piece of data). I also might just replace it with if the net is empty or not, since info is provided. I'm definitely open to feedback on this. 2. The bot is still occasionally freezing and crashing. This will get cleaned up over time. If you notice data not updating, or any data is incorrect or wonky-looking, please take a screenshot and send it to me!

By the way, the bot is open source! If you want to contribute by writing code, reporting issues, or even just donate beer money to me as a thank you, you can do so on the github page here.

Seeing as this is !hockey@lemmy.ca and not !nhl@lemmy.ca, is anyone watching the non NHL games goes on? The World Junior Championship is currently going on. The PWHL just started their inaugural season! US-based fans can watch every PWHL game for free on their Youtube channel here.

Is there any interest in having game day threads for these non NHL games?

Edit: OH I forgot to mention, highlight videos for goals are now attached in the game posts by the bot!