Latest Arsenal news and videos in one place

Arsenal Live Tracker

Site: https://arsenal-live-tracker.replit.app

I built this for my dad, who’s a long-time Arsenal FC fan. I wanted him to have a site where he could easily get the latest news and videos about the team.

First, I hashed out the idea with ChatGPT. Told it what I wanted and asked it for a PRD recap, a step by step guide and prompt. Then, I took the prompt into Replit. Had to create and add YouTube API key in a Secrets folder to securely store these keys. Replit used Google News RSS feed for Arsenal news articles.

Tweaks

There’s no one-shotting things if you really want it to work. Tweaks included:

  • Had to get the Arsenal logo from Wikipedia and give it to Replit because it kept generating made-up SVG logos it called the Arsenal logo.

  • Tweaked layout, alignment, and spacing

  • Made the News and Video containers flex in height with the viewport.

  • Optimized header so it took up less space, had fewer words (shorter name), and incorporated the Refresh button instead of having it sit awkwardly by itself.

  • Get the videos to play in an overlay instead of in their cards

  • Add sorting logic so that news and videos were listed by recency

Launched

July 5, 2025

Learnings

Generating and incorporating API credentials YouTube API

Restricting API key to YouTube API usage only

To Dos

Get a real name and domain

Incorporate some monetization?

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