Help parsing XML from betdsi

[neilb]

Are any of you guys Wordpress fans? I currently work with integrating API's but most betting providers only provide XML feeds which is now old school compared with json feeds.

I'd like to create such a plugin which is JavaScript based, that way it would be constantly up to date. What are the most popular feeds?


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[DanHorvat]

How long has it taken to get to this stage and how long before you are happy with it? Also how much time will it take each day once you have it set up to update the feeds, or does that happen automatically.

It used to be a full site with 168 bookies, with a paid feed, this here is a free version I'm toying around with when I have the time. It will see the light of day again, eventually. The feed is updated automatically, though I switch it off when I'm not working on the site.

[DanHorvat]

Neil, how do you intend to combine 20 different feeds into one?

[Jericho]

Hi Thanks for all the responses. The devs are using curl. Will post below.

[Jericho]

edit

[Jericho]

$url="http://lines.betdsi.com/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // get the url contents
echo $data = curl_exec($ch); // execute curl request
//$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
//print_r($xml);
curl_close($ch);
exit;

[Jericho]

for some reason it will not let me post the code without moderation. I WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY!

[neilb]

The way I would do it is add them in separately, massage the data and then output it all into a table, I can add a switch for each provider so you could turn each one on/off


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[universal4]

Instead of trying to find a way around moderation, ask a moderator, myself or Anthony to approve a post if it ends up in the moderation que.

I have approved the post.

Rick
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[DanHorvat]

This is what I've got.

$curl = curl_init($feedurl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip,deflate");
$xml = curl_exec($curl);
var_dump(curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD));

// Check if any error occurred
if(!curl_errno($curl)) {
$info = curl_getinfo($curl);
echo 'Took ' , $info['total_time'] , ' seconds to send a request to ' , $info['url'] , "</BR>";
}
else {
echo "There was some sort of error." , "/<BR>";
}

curl_close($curl);

$xmlStr = file_get_contents("$feedurl") or die("can't get file");

[DanHorvat]

So...If we'd use a BetDSI feed in my code, it would look like this:

$url="http://lines.betdsi.com/";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip,deflate");

$data = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD));
curl_close($ch);

$xml = file_get_contents("$feedurl") or die("can't get file");

Show that to your devs. I guess it should work. $xml string will have all your data. I guess gzip&deflate line is optional, depends on whether the source is gzipped.

[Pmig]

why dont you use simplexml_load_file() and then work on the file with xpath?

Is faster and is very easy to work it.

[DanHorvat]

Yes it is, it's my preferred way of parsing XML.

I had to dig deep through my files to find a curl example, and in case of that feed, it was only possible to parse it with curl. Because the morons gzipped the feed to save their bandwidth and make my life miserable.

I'm not sure about the BetDSI feed. If it can be parsed with simpleXML, that's the way it should be done.

[Pmig]

yep could be with sometinhg like:

$lines = $xml->xpath('//line/../..');
foreach($lines as $line) {

$hometeam = $line->game->attributes()->htm;
$hometeamodds = $line->game->line->attributes()->hoddsh;

print $hometeam;
print $hometeamodds;
}

You need to add the other fields, but the example is there.. Its so simple as you can see Please note I up 2 levels on xpath to get the team names and other data.

[Jericho]

Thanks I will ask the team. Were you able to successfully parse the xml with this code ?

[Pmig]

I'm building a odds comparison site and for sure that code works for most of the feeds out there. That is just an example The "logic" is there it's just a matter of your dev understanding how to fetch each field.

Please note I wrote that code "live" (without testing) while answer the thread, could have some minor errors but easy fixable. It's just to you have a idea where to start.

[Jericho]

Hi Team,

I hate when people ask for help, get it, then abandon thread.

If any pour soul searches for this and finds it. The Dev didnt admit it, but after checking their code it looks Danhorvat was onto something. I see they had to deflate / unzip the xml to get it working.

Thanks for everyone's help!