Kaggle-Watcher

Kaggle Notification System with Kaggle API and Slack API using Google Apps Script

System overview

Installation

1. Clone this Repository
2. Go to your Google Drive and make a new Google Apps Script Project.
3. Make a new spreadsheet in your Google Drive and make a new Spreadsheet. Name it with the competition name which you want to watch if new kernels appear.
4. If you have not installed the Google Apps Script Assistant, install it from the chrome application store.
5. Pull the repository you've cloned using the Google Apps Script Assistant.
6. Set three hidden properties.You can do this with File > Project Properties > Script Properties using webUI.

• token: Slack API token. You can get this from here.
• BASIC_AUTH_ENCODED: Kaggle API basic authentification information.You can get this by running import urllib3; urllib3.util.make_headers(basic_auth="YOUR_KAGGLE_USERNAME:YOUR_KAGGLE_PASSWORD").get("authorization") with Python.YOUR_KAGGLE_USERNAME and YOUR_KAGGLE_PASSWORD is written in the your kaggle.json. Check here if you don't know what kaggle.json is. Note that YOUR_KAGGLE_PASSWORD is not the one you use when you sign in your account.
• KERNEL_LIST_SHEET_ID: Spreadsheet ID of the Spreadsheet you have made in the step 3.You can get this by checking the URL of the Spreadsheet.The position of the ID in the URL is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/(HERE).

6. Install SlackApp Library and GSUnit Library. You can do this from Resources > Libraries. The Library keys are M3W5Ut3Q39AaIwLquryEPMwV62A3znfOO and MIUhnnCDES0N3YHPEWX9DUtkh30YExdAc.
7. Trigger these code.You can do this from Edit > Current Project Trigger

Happy Kaggling!!!