Odd checker or comaprison programs or plugins

[A_Skywalker]

Does someone know a good odds comparison script? I am considering for a first time to buy it and run it 100% for my site.
Livescore too, although I imagine the script will copy data from another site, which they can disable at any minute.

[universal4]

As stated here Valuechecker closed many years ago now 2014.
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/odds-comp...ed-216022.html

Over the years we have had members create stuff and many became inactive and may or may not have dropped their development.

Here is one member that was working on a plugin in 2018
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/my-odds-c...in-245847.html
The support and further development of this was dropped in 2019 but he did put it up on github at the time, so not sure if anyone picked it up and ran with what he had done so far.
https://www.gpwa.org/forum/my-odds-c...tml#post910612

Looks like the api key came from https://www.football-data.org/ and there is some docummentation there.


There was another, haven't found it yet, I recall that I tested a beta on a site once, I forget the name. If I find that one I will update here.

Also oddsmagnet has an api, I think free, but have not looked into how difficult it is to get working.
https://oddsmagnet.com/
api at
https://data.oddsmagnet.com/


Sorry about the research not being completely cleaned up, if anyone runs with any of this lets us know.

Rick
Universal4

/side note, I am moving my post and skywalker's to it's own thread as it may have more impact and response instead of folks reading8 years old posts to get current.

[baldidiot]

The problem with this kind of thing is that they very regularly close up shop. So whilst we've seen several services pop up over the years I wouldn't want to rely on any on them as the rug could very easily be whipped away at any moment. Same with live scores.

I guess if you're just wanting to pop some units on a related page it could work if you're not that bothered if it gets shut down, but if you're talking about focusing a site on it (eg: footballodds.xx or compareracingodds.xx or whatever) then you'd probably want to have your own system built.

That's the conclusion I came to several years ago when we were looking into it.

[A_Skywalker]

Thank you for moving the post to a new thread! I was uncertain if I should make a new thread or not.
I found this site, I don't know if I am allowed to post it. betscripts.com/odds-comparison-script/
They don't list a price and they ask for contact but in the last 2 days they did not reply back. I see a livescore script costs 2500$ but I don't know if it's worth it. I imagine the script can become obsolete very fast?

[newcustomeroffer]

Aside from the cost/technology and potential for it to go obsolete, I can imagine it also takes a lot of upkeep to retain accuracy, particularly on sports where there are potential naming differences between players/teams/markets etc. Oddschecker is littered with incomplete data and I expect they have teams of people responsible for trying to align the feeds. Lots of manual intervention I'd have thought.

[LinuxGam]

It’s definitely not a beginner to write one from scratch yourself, but it’s also not super hard from a coding point of view. You are likely you want to write a server side portion to scrape / download the data and then a JS/HTML portion to download the data and make updates in real-time.

As many have alluded to here, don’t buy a script unless it’s very cheap / free, as things change all the time and if you don’t have the knowledge to change the way it works it can end very fast.

If you are doing it for fun/project then you could scrape the data, but you will soon find a lot of issues like people changing their websites layouts or firewalling your IP when they catch on.

If you are serious about making a dedicated or top quality page/site, you will need to buy a professional API feed and pay a good dev or ideally do it yourself.

I had written a custom one using a data feed, but in the end I just swapped to the data feeds own built one… It’s not because theirs was better (it looks better) but is super slow as heavy JS based, it’s just very hard to compete in search with so many well known sites in google, it wasn’t worth the up keep effort.

[universal4]

Agreed that often many of the issues surrounding such is often that one of the data providers will make changes to the way the data you are scraping is stored. Even something as simple as changing the name (or even spelling) of an object/field etc is enough it could cause it to stop working.

newcustomer said it well and offered a good example, that even oddschecker is consistently having to spend a good bit of time changing and updating trying to keep the feeds showing.

It should never be based around the provider suddenly blocking you or firewalling you, if that is the case you were most likely scraping their data without permission or authorization, and could lead to further issues beyond just the feed no longer working.

Rick
Universal4

[LinuxGam]

It should never be based around the provider suddenly blocking you or firewalling you, if that is the case you were most likely scraping their data without permission or authorization, and could lead to further issues beyond just the feed no longer working.

That's what I meant, if you scrape a website without permission it can change or you they might rightly block your access. If you are paying a data provider now days, you will never be scraping as they will supply API end points with all the formatted data.

[iGaming Builders]

Here is a list of high-quality sports odds comparison tools you can use on your website:

widgets.oddspedia.com

sportsdata.io

oddsmatrix.com

oddsportal.com/widgets/next-matches

betradar.com/betting-stimulation/betting-widgets/

thesports.com

[freespinsnodeposit]

I've seen some sites using a widget from Oddspedia, you can see more about it here - https://widgets.oddspedia.com/

I think the way it works is that one click out is your aff tag and the next is theirs and so on. Not sure this is what you're after, but might be an option.