update-apex-calendar

name	update-apex-calendar
description	Re-scrape Apex Pickleball Clubs sessions from PodPlay, refresh events.json, and redeploy the static GitHub Pages site. Use when asked to "update apex calendar", "refresh podplay data", "redeploy apex", or when running a scheduled /loop to keep the live site current.

Update Apex Calendar

Refreshes the session data behind the Apex PodPlay Helper site and redeploys it. The site is static (GitHub Pages from main root, no GitHub Actions), so "deploy" means: regenerate events.json, commit it, and push.

Repo: /Users/wiles/Documents/GitHub/apex-podplay-helper Live: https://chriswiles.github.io/apex-podplay-helper/

A user /loop may invoke this skill on a cadence. This skill itself schedules nothing — one invocation = one refresh-and-deploy.

Steps

Run from the repo root.

1. Record the current count (to detect suspicious drops):

   cd /Users/wiles/Documents/GitHub/apex-podplay-helper
   OLD=$(node -e "try{console.log(require('./events.json').count)}catch(e){console.log(0)}")
   

2. Scrape + rewrite events.json:

   npm run fetch
   

   The scraper (scripts/fetch-events.mjs) mints an anonymous PodPlay token, paginates the events API, retries transient failures, and throws (exit non-zero) if it scrapes fewer than 50 events — so a broken run aborts without touching good data. If this command fails, stop: do not commit, report the error.

3. vs the old one: