notifyMe

Desktop notification for matches of your favourite football team

Supported OS:

• Linux
• Mac OSX

Dependencies

• For Linux: notify-send
  • sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

How to Install

Instructions

IMPORTANT

• Do not give space between the name of the team while setting your favourite team
• WRONG :- teamReal Madrid | RIGHT:- teamRealMadrid
• WRONG:- teamBayern Munich | RIGHT:- teamBayernMunich
• No need to mention "FC" with the name of team
• WRONG:- teamArsenalFC | RIGHT:- teamArsenal

Steps

1. cd ~
2. git clone https://github.com/rish9511/notifyMe.git
3. cd ~/notifyMe/src
4. chmod +x notifyMe.sh
5. Run the scrip and provide the name of the football team for which you want to receive notifications.

• This is a one time setup
• ./notifyMe.sh team< Name of the team> :-see examples below
• ./notifyMe.sh teamArsenal teamRealMadrid
• Keyword "team" is important
• Refer to instructions above for more details on how to provide the name of the team
• Upon running the script you will receive a notification for each team notifying whether there was a match or not
• Later if you want to add more teams, just run the script as mentioned above

6. Settin up Crontab

• cd ~
• crontab -e (this should fire up the VI editor inside your terminal)
• Press "i" to go in insert mode
• At the end of the file add the next two lines
• #job for football notifications
• 0 11,16 * * * cd ~/notifyMe/src; ./notifyMe.sh
• Save the file by pressing "esc" key followed by ":" key , "x" key and Enter key