Source code for https://www.smitebuilds.pro
SMITE is a popular video game developed by Titan Forge Games, in which one has to choose a sequence of items to buy - a so-called build. This website shows builds used by professional players in the SMITE Pro League (SPL) and in the SMITE Challenger Circuit (SCC). These builds can also be filtered by god/role/player/date/item etc.
As this data is not available in the SMITE API, it is obtained by web scraping the following official websites:
- Backend - Python, bottle (web framework), SQLite, SQLAlchemy (ORM), Selenium
- Frontend - TypeScript, Vue 3, Bulma, vite
The website is hosted using PythonAnywhere. The deployment and maintenance scripts are (at least for now) in a different (private) repo.
- Blues' spreadsheet (this link goes to the Season 10 version)
- https://prosmitebuilds.com
Minimal required version of Python is 3.10.
Setup consists of:
- Installing the required packages - e.g. (on linux):
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Setting the required environment variables described below. This can be done easily with
cp .env.example .env - (Optional) Puting ChromeDriver in PATH for the webscraping script.
Then the run script can be used:
./run webapi- runs the web api for development purposes. Also creates the SQLite database (storage/backend.db), if it doesn't exist yet../run tests- runs the unit tests../run updater- runs the webscraping script../run log_manager- parses logs for warnings and errors and sends what it found to a https://ntfy.sh/ topic. Also rotates and archives logs, and makes a database backup.- There are also some additional small helper scripts in the
backend/webapi/toolsandbackend/updater/toolsfolders.
Used enviroment variables:
HMAC_KEY_HEX- key used to authenticate the webscraping script with the web api, in hexadecimal.SMITE_DEV_ID&SMITE_AUTH_KEY- credentials for the SMITE API. This api is currently used only for getting the name of a new god, when their name is misprinted on the SPL website.BACKEND_URL- web api url for the webscraping script.NTFY_TOPIC- the topic to which notifications are sent.MATCHES_WITH_NO_STATS(optional) - match IDs separated by commas, which are not warned about, when they have no stats.
Created files (the SQLite database, logs, etc.) are stored in the storage folder, in the root of the project.
CD to the frontend directory and install the required packages: cd fe && npm ci. The development server can then be started with npm run dev, the static files can be built with npm run build and these can be previewed with npm run serve.