Parse NHL.com and send games scores, once a day, directly to your phone with twilio.

hockeyScript.php

<?php
    require "twilio-php/Services/Twilio.php";

    class Match
    {
        public $firstTeam;
        public $firstTeamScore;
        public $secondTeam;
        public $secondTeamScore;
    }

    function main()
    {
        $url = constructURL();
        $html = getRequest($url);

        // Create a new DOM Document to handle scraping
        $dom = new DOMDocument();

        // In HTML5, there is no DTD to check, which will make DOM use the HTML4 Transitional DTD 
        // and that doesnt contain those elements, hence the Warnings
        libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
        $res = $dom -> loadHTML($html);
        libxml_use_internal_errors(false);

        $xpath = new DomXPath($dom);
        $class = 'team left';
        $classHeader = "left";

        $tableHeaderElements = $xpath -> query("//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' $classHeader ')]");
        $items = $xpath -> query("//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' $class ')]");

        $number = 0;
        $firstTeam = true;
        $matches = [];

        // Only take the first element
        foreach ($tableHeaderElements as $i)
        {
            $node = $i;
            $nodeValue = $node -> nodeValue;
            
            if ($nodeValue == "FINAL" || $nodeValue == "FINAL OT" || $nodeValue == "FINAL SO")
            {
                $number = 0;

                while ($node -> nodeValue != "T")
                {
                    $node = $node -> nextSibling;
                    $number++;
                }
            }
            else if ($number == 0)
                continue;
            else 
            {
                $team = $node -> nodeValue;
                $numberTemp = $number;

                while ($numberTemp > 0)
                {
                    $node = $node -> nextSibling;
                    $numberTemp--;
                }

                $score = $node -> nodeValue;

                if ($firstTeam)
                {
                    $match = new Match();
                    $match -> firstTeam = str_replace("é", "e", $team);
                    $match -> firstTeamScore = $score;
                    $firstTeam = false;
                }
                else
                {
                    $match -> secondTeam = str_replace("é", "e", $team);
                    $match -> secondTeamScore = $score;
                    $matches[] = $match;  
                    $firstTeam = true;
                }
            }
        }

        return $matches;
    }

    function getRequest($url)
    {
        // Initialize curl and following options
        $ch = curl_init();
      
        curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
            CURLOPT_URL => $url
        ));
     
        // Grab the html from the page
        $html = curl_exec($ch);

        if(!$html) {
            echo "An error append with the request" . PHP_EOL;
            exit();
        }

        curl_close($ch);

        return $html;
    }

    function constructURL()
    {
        $date = getDatetimeNow();
        return "http://www.nhl.com/ice/scores.htm?date=" . $date . "&season=20152016";
    }

    function getDatetimeNow() {
        $tz_object = new DateTimeZone('America/Montreal');
        //date_default_timezone_set('Brazil/East');

        $datetime = new DateTime();
        $datetime->setTimezone($tz_object);
        return $datetime->format("m/j/Y");
    }

    function printMatches($matches)
    {
        $matchesString = "";

        if ($matches != null)
        {
            foreach ($matches as &$match)
            {
                if ($match -> firstTeamScore > $match -> secondTeamScore)
                {
                    $matchesString .= $match -> firstTeam . " - " . $match -> secondTeam . " " . 
                            $match -> firstTeamScore . " - " . $match -> secondTeamScore . "\n";
                }
                else
                {
                    $matchesString .= $match -> secondTeam . " - " . $match -> firstTeam . " " . 
                            $match -> secondTeamScore . " - " . $match -> firstTeamScore . "\n";
                }
            }
        }

        return $matchesString;
    }

    function twilioSend($matchesString)
    {
        $account_sid = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'; 
        $auth_token = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'; 
        $client = new Services_Twilio($account_sid, $auth_token);

        $people = array(
            "+11111111111" => "Freelix"
        );

        foreach ($people as $number => $name)
        {
            $sms = $client->account->messages->sendMessage(
                "+99999999999",
                $number,
                "Hi $name, Here's the results for ". getDatetimeNow() . " :\n\n" . $matchesString
            );
 
            // Display a confirmation message on the screen
            echo "Just sent a sms to $name";
        }
    }

    twilioSend(printMatches(main()));
?>

hockeyScript.sh

#!/bin/sh

# To start script --> nohup ./hockeyScript.sh >> log.txt &
# To stop script --> ps -ef
# then kill -9 pid

while true
do
    /usr/bin/php hockeyScript.php &

    printf "\n"
    date +'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S'
    printf "\n"

    sleep 86400
done