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Posted by James Spence
James Spence
17,563 Points

Getting live football scores

I want to make a website with live football scores and fixtures and then allow users to make make predictions on scores against friends. I was wondering where I would be able to get the data from though. I have had a look around and come up with a few ways. Sky offer a Google calendar that automatically updates which I could use or I was thinking of doing a screen scrape of Fifa's website.

Anyone have an idea of what the best way to go about this would be?

1 Answer

Samiruddin Syed
Samiruddin Syed
3,136 Points
Samiruddin Syed
Samiruddin Syed
3,136 Points

First choose a website where the Scores are displayed correctly and are updated accordingly because if they do not update quickly then your website wont update as well.

See if that website provides an API so that you can plug in to their website to fetch the scores.

When ever you are trying to scrape some data from anywhere, API is the best method, if not then the regular scraping can dp the job. But then if that website changes any code on their website then you would have to change yours too all over the website.

Hope this helps.

James Spence
James Spence
17,563 Points

Thanks, I'll have a look.