alexa-baseball

Baseball home runs data and samples for Alexa

System Requirements

• NodeJS +6x
• Java +6.X (for DynamoDB local)
• AWS DynamoDB (remote or local)
• Modules in data/scripts/package.json

Installation & Setup

Code Access:

• git clone https://github.com/dvpatel/alexa-baseball.git

Install modules:

• cd db/scripts
• npm install

Run Samples:

• Launch DynamoDB local.
  Instructions: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DynamoDBLocal.html

Create DynamoDB Tables.

• cd db/scripts folder
• edit db-config.json for local or aws configuration and data files
• node PlayersCreateTable.js
• node BattingCreateTable.js
• node TeamsCreateTable.js

This script will create players, batting, and teams tables in DynamoDB.

Import data. The data repository is from baseball data bank maintained by Sean Lahaman.

• node PLayersLoadData.js
• node BattingLoadData.js
• node TeamsLoadData.js

Code Examples

• cd lambda folder.
• npm install

To get top home runs hitters for a given time range:

• node HomerunKing.js 1999 2009

To get all players with greater than "n" home runs in a given year:

• node HomerunsSearch.js 2001 45

And to search players by last name:

• node PlayersSearch.js Bonds

Lambda Examples

• Tables / data required to be loaded on AWS
• Make sure you have the right Lamba role setup in IAM, including permission to read DynamoDB
• edit add-homerunking-lambda.sh to point to location of homerunking.zip file
• call add-homerunking-lambda.sh
• To invoke lambda, call invoke-homerunking-lambda.sh
• To delete lambda function from AWS, call del-homerunking-lambda.sh