https://github.com/RiiConnect24/File-Maker

Generate data files for Wii Channels that have the latest news, forecast data, etc.
https://github.com/RiiConnect24/File-Maker

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Generate data files for Wii Channels that have the latest news, forecast data, etc.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/RiiConnect24/File-Maker
• Owner: RiiConnect24
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-04-22T21:48:01.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-17T18:56:57.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T10:08:30.456Z (12 months ago)
• Topics: channels, forecast, hacktoberfest, news, python, python3, riiconnect24, votes, weather, wii, wii-channels, wiiconnect24
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 6.98 MB
• Stars: 68
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 25
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# File-Maker

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These scripts will create static data files for these Wii Channels:

- Everybody Votes Channel

- Forecast Channel

- News Channel

- Nintendo Channel

- Check Mii Out Channel/Mii Contest Channel

These files are downloaded on the Wii, and contain news, weather info, etc that the Channel(s) display, as well as influencing some games' environments.

## Services and Modules

We use the following services for this project:

- [Datadog](https://datadoghq.com/) for analytics.

- For News Channel, [Google Maps Geocoding API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro) to get location coordinates.

- For Everybody Votes Channel and Check Mii Out Channel, [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/) to hold votes and suggestions.

- [Sentry](https://sentry.io/) for error logging.

- Webhooks to log when a script has been ran.

Some notable Python modules used in the project are:

- [BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) for HTML parsing.

- [feedparser](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser) to parse RSS feeds.

- [newspaper](http://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for news article scraping.

- [nlzss](https://github.com/DorkmasterFlek/python-nlzss) for LZ compressing the files.

- [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/) for various HTTP requests.

- [rsa](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rsa) to create an RSA signed SHA-1 (that the Wii verifies downloaded files with).

[AccuWeather](https://accuweather.com/) is used as the weather source for the Forecast Channel. For a list of news sources we use for the News Channel, [refer to this webpage](https://rc24.xyz/services/news.html).

All files are LZ10 compressed.

If you want to know the format of the files used by the Channels, you can [look at our Kaitais](https://github.com/RiiConnect24/Kaitai-Files), check the wiki, or look at the code.

## Installing Requirements

These scripts run on Python 3.

Just run `pip install -r requirements.txt` in the root folder and it'll install. You might have to run as `sudo` due to permissions.

It's required to have a `config.json` for each Channel in the `Channels` folder. Fill out `config.json.template` for the Channels you want to run this script for, and rename it to `config.json`.

Run the scripts as modules, e.g. `python -m Channels.Forecast_Channel.forecast`.