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''MLB Game Feed Bot'' is a Discord bot developed by [[Chew]] and is used to hook into the MLB (Major League Baseball) API and track live game data, much like the MLB's ''Gameday''. It is written in JDA, a Java Discord library. As of July 10th, 2024, it is in over 1,100 servers.

== Features ==

The bot allows you to start a live game and have the plays come in when they're posted to the endpoint. By default, in-play events have a 13 second delay, and plays that don't (strikeouts, walks, etc) have a 18 second delay. This can be configured per channel, as desired. These times were chosen as they closely line up with the play happening live on TV, to prevent spoilers. Watching a game in-person, there is a few second delay before the result is posted to the API.

=== Commands ===

The bot communicates solely though slash commands. There are 7 commands, 4 of which manage or monitors games.<ref>[https://help.chew.pro/bots/discord/mlb-game-feed/commands MLB Game Feed Bot command list]</ref>

Games can be started with the <code>/startgame</code> or <code>/plangame</code> to plan future games. Once a game is active, <code>/score</code> can be used to view the score, and <code>/stopgame</code> can forcibly stop the game; however, the game will stop automatically when it's over.

The bot can be configured per-channel with the <code>/config</code> command. And the <code>/setinfo</code> command can be used to set a voice channel's name to certain stats. Finally, <code>/standings</code> can be used to view standings for a provided division.

== History ==

The bot started off inspired by the MLB Chat Discord server's own bot. Chew began development on June 16th, 2022<ref>[https://github.com/Chew/MLB-GameFeed-Bot/commit/d87913277ff2ba37ea5c4844985d28a700c10dad Initial gradle by Chew on GitHub]</ref>, but the first code was committed the following day on June 17th, 2022<ref>[https://github.com/Chew/MLB-GameFeed-Bot/commit/e0da85726b26ac0d5dbc663f4c24943d5bfddabd Iteration one of game feed by Chew on GitHub]</ref>. Throughout the rest of the month, fixes and improvements were slowly made. The bot was added to a Texas Rangers fan Discord server.

At the start of the 2023 season, the bot was in 79 servers; at the end of the season, it was in nearly 600 servers.

== External Links ==

* [https://help.chew.pro/bots/discord/mlb-game-feed MLB Game Feed on ChewHelp]

== References ==
[[Category:Discord Bots]]
[[Category:Projects]]
[[Category:Programs written in Java]]
[[Category:Active projects]]