Send Message with Discord API on New Football League Transactions from Yahoo! Fantasy Sports API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Yahoo! Fantasy Sports trigger and Discord action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Football League Transactions trigger
1. Connect your Yahoo! Fantasy Sports account
2. Select a League
3. Optional- Select one or more Event Types
4. Configure Polling interval
Configure the Send Message action
1. Connect your Discord account
2. Configure channel
3. Configure Message
4. Optional- Configure Thread ID
5. Optional- Configure Username
6. Optional- Configure Avatar URL
7. Optional- Configure Include link to workflow
8. Optional- Configure Suppress notifications
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Football League Transactions on Yahoo! Fantasy Sports

Description:Emit new event when a new football league transaction occurs

Version:0.0.3

Key:yahoo_fantasy_sports-new-football-league-transactions

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Yahoo! Fantasy Sports Overview#

The Yahoo! Fantasy Sports API opens a realm of possibilities for sports enthusiasts and developers, allowing them to tap into fantasy leagues, player stats, and real-time scoring. Leverage this data source within Pipedream to automate team management, notifications, and data analysis. You can create dynamic workflows that react to league updates, automate team roster changes, or aggregate statistics for insightful analytics, all with real-time triggers and seamless integrations with hundreds of apps.

Trigger Code#

import yfs from "../../yahoo_fantasy_sports.app.mjs";
import options from "../common/options.mjs";
import { DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "yahoo_fantasy_sports-new-football-league-transactions",
  name: "New Football League Transactions",
  description: "Emit new event when a new football league transaction occurs",
  version: "0.0.3",
  type: "source",
  dedupe: "unique",
  props: {
    yfs,
    league: {
      propDefinition: [
        yfs,
        "league",
      ],
    },
    eventTypes: {
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Event Types",
      description: "Select the types of events to watch for",
      options: options.EVENT_TYPES,
      optional: true,
      default: [
        "*",
      ],
    },
    timer: {
      label: "Polling interval",
      description: "Pipedream will poll the API on this schedule",
      type: "$.interface.timer",
      default: {
        intervalSeconds: DEFAULT_POLLING_SOURCE_TIMER_INTERVAL,
      },
    },
  },
  async run() {
    const eventTypes = this.eventTypes.includes("*")
      ? options.ALL_EVENT_TYPES
      : this.eventTypes;

    const transactions = await this.yfs.getLeagueTransactions(this.league, eventTypes);
    if (Object.keys(transactions).length === 0) {
      return;
    }

    for (const txn of transactions) {
      txn._summary = this.yfs.transactionSummary(txn);
      this.$emit(txn, {
        id: txn.transaction_key,
        ts: (+txn.timestamp) * 1000,
        summary: txn._summary,
      });
    }
  },
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Yahoo! Fantasy Sports	`yfs`	`app`	This component uses the Yahoo! Fantasy Sports app.
League	`league`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Event Types	`eventTypes`	`string[]`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`*adddropcommishtrade`
Polling interval	`timer`	`$.interface.timer`	Pipedream will poll the API on this schedule

Trigger Authentication#

Yahoo! Fantasy Sports uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Yahoo! Fantasy Sports account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Yahoo! Fantasy Sports and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Yahoo! Fantasy Sports API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

fspt-rprofileemail

About Yahoo! Fantasy Sports#

Create or join a NFL league and manage your team with live scoring, stats, scouting reports, news, and expert advice

Action#

Send Message on Discord

Description:Send a simple message to a Discord channel

Version:1.0.2

Key:discord-send-message

View on GitHub

Discord Overview#

The Discord API interacts seamlessly with Pipedream, empowering you to craft customized automations and workflows for your Discord server. With this powerful integration, you can automate tasks like message posting, user management, and notifications, based on a myriad of triggers and actions from different apps. These automations can enhance the Discord experience for community moderators and members, by synchronizing with external tools, organizing community engagement, and streamlining notifications.

Action Code#

import common from "../common/common.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "discord-send-message",
  name: "Send Message",
  description: "Send a simple message to a Discord channel",
  version: "1.0.2",
  type: "action",
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      message,
      avatarURL,
      threadID,
      username,
      includeSentViaPipedream,
      suppressNotifications,
    } = this;
    try {
      const resp = await this.discord.sendMessage(this.channel, {
        avatar_url: avatarURL,
        username,
        flags: this.getMessageFlags(suppressNotifications),
        content: includeSentViaPipedream
          ? this.appendPipedreamText(message)
          : message,
      }, {
        thread_id: threadID,
      });
      $.export("$summary", "Message sent successfully");
      return resp || {
        success: true,
      };
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
      const unsentMessage = this.getUserInputProps();
      $.export("unsent", unsentMessage);
      throw err;
    }
  },
};

Action Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Discord	`discord`	`app`	This component uses the Discord app.
channel	`channel`	`$.discord.channel`
Message	`message`	`string`	Enter a simple message up to 2000 characters. This is the most commonly used field. However, it's optional if you pass embed content.
Thread ID	`threadID`	`string`	If provided, the message will be posted to this thread
Username	`username`	`string`	Overrides the current username of the webhook
Avatar URL	`avatarURL`	`string`	If used, it overrides the default avatar of the webhook. Note: Consecutive posts by the same username within 10 minutes of each other will not display updated avatar.
Include link to workflow	`includeSentViaPipedream`	`boolean`	Defaults to `true`, includes a link to this workflow at the end of your Discord message.
Suppress notifications	`suppressNotifications`	`boolean`	Defaults to `false`, sends the message as silent, triggers no notifications to clients.

Action Authentication#

Discord uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Discord account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Discord and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Discord API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

botemailidentifyguilds