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FPLbot

FPLbot is a bot made for the subreddit /r/FantasyPL. It can also be used for other subreddits by changing the values in the configuration file.

Its current features are:

  • Posting the price changes of Fantasy Premier League players
  • Comparing the performance of a player vs. a team
  • Comparing the performance of a player vs. another player

Installation

FPLbot uses MongoDB to store players in a database, and so it is required to have MongoDB installed. Other than that, it uses fpl to retrieve information from Fantasy Premier League's API, and thus requires Python 3.6+.

git clone [email protected]:amosbastian/FPLbot.git
cd FPLbot
pip install -r requirements.txt

To initialise the database with text indexes you should do the following:

python FPLbot/init.py

Once this has been done, you should create your own config.json with the correct values (see configuration). With this filled in, you can run the bot using

python FPLbot/bot.py

As for the price changes, you should schedule a cron job, like this for example:

25 1 * * * /home/amos/FPLbot/venv/bin/python /home/amos/FPLbot/FPLbot/price_changes.py

Usage

The bot can be called on /r/FantasyPL using the following two commands:

  1. !fplbot <player_name> vs. <team_name> <optional: number of fixtures>
  2. !fplbot <player_name> vs. <player_name> <optional: number of fixtures>

The bot uses text indexes to search for the player(s) and using a manually created mapping (so you don't have to use e.g. "man utd" exactly, but other variations are fine as well, like "man u" or "manchester united"). The number of fixtures is completely optional, and if not specified, it simply uses all fixtures that are considered relevant. All the data is taken from FPL's API & Understat. Here are two examples:

!fplbot heung-min son vs. mane 5

Son (£8.9) vs. Mané (£9.6) (last 5 fixtures)

xA A xG G MP Fixture Fixture MP G xG A xA
0.13 0 0.42 1 90 Spurs 3-1 Leicester Liverpool 3-0 Bournemouth 89 1 0.58 0 0.12
0.70 0 0.19 1 90 Spurs 1-0 Newcastle United West Ham 1-1 Liverpool 90 1 0.64 0 0.00
0.00 0 0.20 1 90 Spurs 2-1 Watford Liverpool 1-1 Leicester 90 1 0.18 0 0.10
0.38 0 0.05 0 90 Spurs 0-1 Man Utd Liverpool 4-3 Crystal Palace 90 1 0.47 0 0.01
0.08 1 0.50 1 77 Cardiff 0-3 Spurs Brighton 0-1 Liverpool 90 0 0.10 0 0.10
1.29 1 1.36 4 437 449 4 1.97 0 0.34

!fplbot rashford vs. liverpool

Rashford vs. Liverpool (last 4 fixtures)

Fixture Date MP G xG A xA NPG NPxG KP
Liverpool 3-1 Man Utd 2018-12-16 90 0 0.02 0 0.00 0 0.02 0
Man Utd 2-1 Liverpool 2018-03-10 72 2 0.17 0 0.00 2 0.17 0
Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd 2017-10-14 24 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0
Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd 2016-10-17 78 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0
264 2 0.19 0 0.00 2.0 0.19 0

Configuration

Option Value
USERNAME The bot's username
PASSWORD The bot's password
CLIENT_ID The bot's client ID
CLIENT_SECRET The bot's client secret
USER_AGENT A unique identifier that helps Reddit determine the source of network requests
SUBREDDIT The subreddit the bot will post to
BOT_PREFIX The prefix used to call the bot, e.g.: "!fplbot"

For more information about how to set up a bot see Reddit's guide.