World Cup Automatic Goal Celebration

wc_blast.py

# Use with this mp3 downloaded and renamed as "airhorn.mp3"
# http://www.freesound.org/people/mcpable/sounds/131930/
#
import urllib,json,os,sys,time

goals = []
while True:
    sys.stdout.write(".")
    sys.stdout.flush()
    data = urllib.urlopen("http://worldcup.sfg.io/matches/today").read()
    o = json.loads(data)

    my_team = sys.argv[1]


    for match in o:
        team = None
        if my_team == match["home_team"]["country"]:
            team = "home_team"
        elif my_team == match["away_team"]["country"]:
            team = "away_team"
        if not team: continue
    
        for e in match["%s_events"%team]:
            if e["type_of_event"] == "goal" and e["id"] not in goals:
                print "Goal",e["id"]," registered"
                goals.append(e["id"])
                os.system("afplay airhorn.mp3")
                os.system('say "%s scored a goal"'%my_team)
    
    time.sleep(60)