2019年7月12日星期五

5 Most Reliable Sports APIs

Sports data can be useful for developers in countless ways. And the best way to connect to sports data is via an Application Programming Interface (API). If a developer wants to create an application that notifiies users about live scores, or an application for betting, or an application for following fantasy players or e-sports, they can tap into the proper API to get the job done.

Here in no particular order are 5 of the most popular Sports APIs in our directory.

1. Sportradar Sports Data API


The Sportradar Sports Data API coverage includes more than 60 sports and 390,000 annual games. Sportradar is an official partner to NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and many other leagues and federations. The API provides data for the American sports already mentioned, plus NCAA, Cricket, Handball, Australian Rules Football, Rugby, Soccer, Golf, Olympics, and E-Sports, among others. The API can return probabilities and odds comparisons. The API features a simulation system that replays select completed games and allows users to view API feeds as if they were happening live.

2. Versus Sports Simulator

Versus Sports Simulator provides professional and collegiate team data. The Versus Sports Simulator APITrack this API delivers team rankings, conference/divisional rankings, team report cards, game predictions, statistics, and game simulations for college and professional sports, including NFL and college football, NBA and college basketball, UFC fighting, MLB, and NASCAR. Versus Sports Simulator was developed by mathematician and sports statistics pioneer, Steve Pugh. API pricing is dependent upon sport.

3. iSports API

Free & Reliable Sports API are provided by iSports, coveraged aboth football, basketball and esports data of multiple events around the world. Their affordable data services are perfect for startups with limited budget. In addition, universal data format is all well strutured and easy to implement. As a company devoted sports industry fou more than 12 years, they've serve news media, sports enthusiast platforom as well as football club and betting operators with professional services.

4. Gracenote Sports

The Gracenote Sports API (formerly Infostrada Sports API) offers programmatic access to the Gracenote sports database. The API retrieves data from sport leagues around the world, including 4,500 North American, European and Asian leagues and competitions, including the NFL, MLB, NBA, NCAA, English Premier League, Bundesliga, F1, Tour de France, Wimbledon and global events such as the Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Asian Games. The data is available in multiple languages, and is returned in JSON or XML formats. Interested developers need to contact the provider for API documentation and access.

5. Yahoo Fantasy Sports


Yahoo Fantasy Sports is the world's largest fantasy sports provider, allowing users to compete against each other using statistics from real-world competitions. The Yahoo Fantasy Sports APITrack this APIprovides rich data on leagues, teams and player information. This data can be used to build non-commercial tools and applications that help analyze draft results, review free agents, optimize current rosters, or other apps The Yahoo Fantasy Sports API utilizes the Yahoo Query Language (YQL) as a mechanism to access Yahoo Fantasy Sports data, returning data in XML and JSON formats.

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