About this project

This tool was created to help manage a DraftKings league as the commissioner. It used to be a script that was used to generate a blog post template for Platanofb.com, a GitHub Pages project. Now, this tool is a group of functions that can be called to return data, which makes integration with other projects, like a Flask website, possible.

One of the new features is login_to_dk() which logs in to DraftKings and stores/loads cookies; this enables getting contest details automatically, an improvement over downloading the contest results CSV and supplying the file to the old script. A wiki will be updated to describe usage of each function, although they are appropriately named and comments are included inline with the code.

Usage

Create a session to be passed to the functions of dkextract

import dkextract, requests

s = requests.session()
dkextract.get_all_players(session=s, week=1, year=2020)

DraftKings credentials and other values

This tool will look for DraftKings credentials in the following environment variables:

export DKUSER=dkuser@email.com
export DKPASS=dkp@ssw0rd

Some other values that are not obvious when using the tool:

all_members = set(["dk_username1", "dk_username2", "dk_username3"])
winning_values = {1: 100, 2: 50, 3: 25}
week1 = 'Sep 9, 2021 20:20:00'

• all_members is a set of all DraftKings member names
• winning_values is a value assigned to a rank. In this example, first place (rank 1 or 1:) is assigned a value of 100. Pass this to generate_results()
• week1 is the date and time of the first game of the season.

Thank you

Thanks for taking a look at my tool. Please feel free to provide feedback or suggestions, but notice, this code was created and written for fun.