Red Lenses adds extra functionality to NexGolf. NexGolf is a great app for golfers in Finland. However, I believe it is missing some simple functionality. This site hopes to add these features through data that is already availble. Calendar, feeds, notifications. Automatically! Read more.
Add your tee time reservations to a calendar of your choice.
Use feeds for notifications or tweets.
See your friends bookings too so you never miss out.
Calendar, feeds, notifications. Automatically!
NexGolf is great for recording your golf scores and it is a super handy way of booking tee-times and telling the caddie master that you are there. One feature I felt was missing was the ability to add your upcoming rounds to your calendar.
I realize that these events may well only be occurring within the coming week, however with busy schedules and events & happenings from various sources I really wanted to add my upcoming rounds into a common calendar.
NexGolf, of course, provides your booking information and scoring history when you are logged in. At this time there is no way to directly retrieve this information and utilize the data but I have found some sort of workaround.
The data that the pages return are in a manageable format, so if you can emulate the login, it is possible to manipulate the data into formats that
generate .ics
and .rss
files that can be utilized by calendar apps, IFTTT and feed readers.
Add event & scorecard links to your desired service and you have Nexgolf events straight into your calendar & your golf scores tweeted automatically! @ULKO7T7
To be able to retrieve the required information, you require an authentication token. You can log in through the form below and get your links directly. Alternatively see below.
Please note that I do not store log in information. However the token generated is visible in the URL on this site. For further information read more here.
You will need a NexGolf account and for this to work fully you should ensure that you have enabled "Show round statistics" in your app settings.
You can grab your session ID if you log into NexGolf directly. Look in session storage & get the token
value of currentUser
.
The url to access this page would be in the format:
https://golf.skiffie.com/?token=token&club=club
If you have been through the link generation & testing process then the final step is to add your .ics
link to your calendar. Here is a quick instruction on how to do this with Google calendar.
You can also just click the webcal button at the top of the page [this is in testing].
See the calendar in action on twitter.
For all you iSheeple out there add the ics links provided through: Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add Subscribed Calendar
The .rss
code allows you to do almost anything with your latest scores posted to NexGolf. In this example, I’ve linked this file with IFTTT to automate the retrieval of the file & subsequent automatic posting to Twitter. You will need
I'm not going to go into the ins and outs of creating an IFTTT account, but if you an account created & it is linked to Twitter then you create a new applet:
.rss
URL you have just created{{EntryContent}}
That's it. Note that this is currently broken!!
Similar to the scorecard.rss
you can use buddies.rss
to get the latest bookings that your friends have made. You could use set up IFTTT again with a messenger app such as Facebook or Telegram. Steps very similar to above just make sure you use the correct .rss
URL.
You can now export all your years scores to pipe delimited csv by using the generated link provided above. Scores must be recorded on NexGolf. This should prompt a file download - fill your boots! Note that this is currently broken!!
This is an unofficial way of accessing your own information. It may break at any time.
The previous disclaimers also stands however in additional using this method your user name & password are actually being sent to my servers. I am not collecting or storing this information. Your session token generated through log in is visible in the URL, however querying this information doesn't provide any personal details such as credit card information etc.
Please note that the interval that the files update depend on your software/device. For example calendars may only update once a day. The information shown on this page when you are logged in is real-time, so bookings will show immediately. I'd suggest bookmarking the page when you are logged in.