Need to set season manually in league_status_checker.py

[imjustviolet]

Hi BernKing 👋

I’ve been setting up Scoring Returns Bot and noticed that the bot can’t load the current 2025 leagues. The GUI doesn’t allow selecting the season, so the only way to make it work with the free API-Football plan is to manually change the season in league_status_checker.py.

After testing, I found out that the free API plan only provides data up to 2023, which means the bot won’t fetch current leagues unless you have a paid plan. Since the GUI doesn’t allow changing the year, this has to be done manually in the script.

It would be really helpful if:

The bot showed a clear message when the API free plan doesn’t allow current season data.

The GUI allowed selecting a season directly, instead of forcing us to edit the code manually.

Thanks for the great project! 🙌 It works fine after changing the season manually, but having this option in the GUI would make setup much easier.

[BernKing]

Hi, Thanks for your message and comment!
I’ll check it out as soon as I can and get back to you.
Thanks again!

[BernKing]

Hello again! I looked into it and pushed a fix. You can clone the repo (or just pull the latest) locally to update, and everything should be fine. What you said is actually incorrect: even on the API’s free plan you can fetch 2025 data and follow live games, I just tried it locally and successfully tracked some LaLiga and Portugal matches, we just need to be mindful of the daily quota.

The real problem was a flow bug around saving environment variables and then checking the leagues. Now you no longer need to restart the executable after saving the environment variables, the default season is 2025, and I added a field in the GUI to select the season directly just as you suggested.

Could you please give it a test so I can close the issue? Thank you! Feel free to reach out.