Puck Drop

Puck Drop is a subscription service to send automated texts about upcoming NHL games, that's it.

Puck Drop is inspired by NHL's existing reminder service, but without all the marketing spam.

Puck Drop is NOT a production ready service. If you are reading this, it is because I have sent you this application to play around with. The end goal is to create a UI where users can sign up and customize their notifications. As of today, the backend functionality is built, but the frontend is still a work in progress. You will find areas of the code that need improvements as it has NOT been optimized for a production release.

In order to run and test Puck Drop, you will have to use a service like Postman in order to create/delete users and send reminder texts.

Enjoy.

Features

• Create Users
• Delete Users
• Send automated reminder texts

API Reference

Get Team Id

  GET /api/team/getTeamId

Parameter	Type	Description
Name	string	Required. Your team name

Create User

  POST /api/user/register

Parameter	Type	Description
Username	string	Required. Your username
Password	string	Required. Your password
PhoneNumber	string	Required. Your phone number
TeamId	int	Required. Your team id

Delete User

  DELETE /api/user/deleteUser

Parameter	Type	Description
Username	string	Required. Your username
Password	string	Required. Your password

Send Reminder Texts

  POST /api/game/sendGameInfo

Parameter	Type	Description
SecretKey	string	Required. Your API key

Environment Variables

To run this project locally, you will need two config files added.

Add the following variables to your appsettings.json file inside the Web API project :

NHL_API_BASE_URL : https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/

NotificationSettings : { PHONE_NUMBER: Your phone # }

EmailSettings : { EmailSender: Your email address, EmailPassword: Your email password }

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_ID : Your Twilio account id

TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN : Your Twilio auth token

TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER : Your Twilio phone number

ConnectionStrings: { AppConnection: Data Source=NHLReminder.db }

SecretKey : Your API Key

Add the following variables to your local.settings.json file inside the Azure Functions project :

NHLReminderSecretKey : Your API Key

NHLReminderBaseUrl : Your base url for the Web Api Project

Demo

I will use Postman for this demo.

Begin by grabbing the Team Id from the NHLReminder.db database provided. This Team Id is needed in order for the service to know which team you would like to receive texts for.

Then create a user account that will receive notifications, remember to fill in the TeamId field with the Id you got from the first request.

Either run the Azure Timer Trigger Function, or call the end point directly to send texts to your users.

Deployment

This service is meant to eventually be deployed to an Azure App Service. For the time being, this is just a local side project I run for myself