Si You are a football fan, you will know that these days the matches of meeting of one of the most important competitions of this sport which is the soccer world cup, which is celebrated every 4 years.
In this competition, the teams of the countries that qualified for this cup face, so knowing the results of the meetings, as well as the times in which they are held is usually important information if you want to follow up on this new version of the 2018 FIFA world cup.
We can track this information by various means thanks to the great importance and deployment that this competition has.
Among the most common means in which we can be informed is the newspaper, radio TV, online, on social networks or from Google.
However For Linux users, an application has been created which can make it easier for us to obtain this information. within reach of our terminal.
About wowcup
Wowcup is an application written in TypeScript using oclif a Node.js Framework, this tool its use is based on the command line. In which we will display all the necessary information about the results of the soccer world cup.
wow cup makes use of the api.football-data.org API to display upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup matches, scores from previous games, as well as group rankings.
This application is still in its early stages of development, so it is very possible that you will experience errors while using it.
How to install Wowcup on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?
Si want to install this application to know the results of the world cup in your systems, it is important that we have the support to be able to install Node.js applications so if you do not have this support we must open a terminal Ctr + Alt + T and we will execute:
sudo apt install curl build-essential
Y we are going to install Node.js on our system with one of these commands, to install version 8 of node.js we type:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install nodejs
If you want to install Node.js 9:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install nodejs
Now that this is done, it is very important to know that the installation of applications with Node.js should not use root permissions, so we can use a script to facilitate the installation of packages.
We must type:
cd && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glenpike/npm-g_nosudo/master/npm-g-nosudo.sh chmod +x npm-g-nosudo.sh ./npm-g-nosudo.sh
Ya installed Node.js on our system now we are going to install wowcup on our system. For its installation we are going to type:
npm install -g wowcup
And with this we will already have the application installed in our system.
How to use wowcup in Ubuntu and derivatives?
To start using this application, as mentioned above, its use is through the command line so we must open a Ctrl + Alt + T terminal and we are going to execute:
wowcup
Examples of using Wowcup.
Si we want to obtain the information of the matches that are being played today or those that will be disputed tomorrow we are going to use the following command with one of the arguments:
wowcup fixtures
Arguments:
-l, --last Muestra los últimos partidos de las 24 horas recientes -n, --next Muestra los partidos que se disputarán las siguientes 24 horas -p, --playing Muestra los partidos que se están jugando en estos momentos
Yes now they want Wowcup to show them the leaderboards of the different groups of the teams must type the following:
wowcup standings
Arguments:
-t, --table a Indica la tabla de equipos A junto con su información de clasificación.
Here they only have to substitute "a" for the table from which they want to obtain the information.
No more It only remains that you enjoy this application during this competition.
If you know of any other similar application that shows us information about the world cup competition, do not hesitate to share it in the comments.