Plain Text Sports

Re:Plain Text Sports by wallawe on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:30AM (#30754545)

Where do you get your data from? I've found sports data (especially odds/lines) to be overly expensive when trying to build hobby apps.

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Re:Plain Text Sports by jaywalk on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:40AM (#30754655)

ESPN has a surprisingly comprehensive JSON API that isn't locked down. If you're only using it for a hobby app, you won't run into any issues. It's been around for quite a while.

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Re:Plain Text Sports by zouhair on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:37AM (#30755289)

Shutdown for almost 8 years[0].

[0]: http://www.espn.com/apis/devcenter/blog/read/publicretiremen...

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Re:Plain Text Sports by mad_vill on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:15AM (#30755040)

I thought they shutdown their public api.

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Re:Plain Text Sports by jaywalk on Monday March 21, 2022 @11:36AM (#30755269)

Officially, yes. But here's the NFL scores API, for example: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/sc...

It's a "private" API for their website, but like I said it's been around for a while and using it in a hobby app isn't going to be an issue. Using it commercially is just begging for trouble, though.

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Re:Plain Text Sports by mark-ruwt on Monday March 21, 2022 @07:03PM (#30760872)

As someone who maxed out multiple credit cards trying to pay for sports data, I know this pain all too well. If you're working on a hobby app, we give sports data away for free.

https://areyouwatchingthis.com/services/sports-data-api

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Re:Plain Text Sports by beaconstudios on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:36AM (#30754605)

Betting data is expensive because people are building trading/arb bots with that data.

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