Thanks for the feedback. I just threw something up in a few minutes. I'll try to get something better looking up tonight with the caveat that I'm not a designer. Maybe I can get some of my co-workers to design an awesome looking splash page for me.
I've much enjoyed your illustration throughout the group matches. Interestingly, I've shared it with others and they all fell silent. But once I explained it to them they liked it a lot and shared it with others. Who also fell silent. For many people it seems it's too much information/impenetrable. For me it was a puzzle to solve (as I wasn't current on current round-robin protocol). Really good work. Keep it up and see you in 4 years!
Sure, but what if you want to do something with that data? The point of an API is that it is easily consumable. I explained a bit about why I built it in my blog post, but mainly it was 1) for fun and learning (I've never built an API before) 2) to keep the stats updated on a site that I built for my friends for our world cup draft and 3) to be able to use our company Hubot to ask about scores throughout the day...but mostly for fun and learning!
Pretty jealous. I need to get my site together in order to play around with the Opta historical stuff, I'm working on letting people back test betting strategies.
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not be used, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast,
displayed, sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for any other
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Platforms privately for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with
these Terms.
"FIFA Digital Platforms" is defined as the website and their App.
So... doesn't really sound like an "official API" in the sense of being something you could use to create your own world-cup data-based apps or web sites...
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 145 ms ] threadNo need for researching TV channels, the games are broadcast instantly in every country.
We should aim to do better at collaborating on this sort of thing - before the tournament starts.
Perhaps I'm spoiled, because every match is free: cbc.ca/sports-content/soccer/brazil2014/video/
Is where I got for football fixtures for the UK, albeit not JSON.
More details on my last submission here on HN.
What I have heard from a guy on Twitter is that if you get the number of the match then you can: http://live.mobileapp.fifa.com/api/wc/match/300186492/en
Also if you put /blog at the end of that URL you get the latest news regarding that match.
So... doesn't really sound like an "official API" in the sense of being something you could use to create your own world-cup data-based apps or web sites...
How can I know if a goal was scored? Save the last call and compare?
At what rate should I call the API?
npm: https://www.npmjs.org/package/hubot-world-cup-live
github: https://github.com/gberger/hubot-world-cup-live
EDIT: switched to unicorn. Please keep me updated about speed issues and I can turn it up
Sample output: abiyani@vaio:~ [BEL-2-1-ALG, RUS-1-1-KOR, BRA-0-0-MEX]
1.) Open homepage
2.) Click the /matches endpoint link. Json displays
3.) Click back button.
Expected: The homepage displays.
Actual: The URL changes back to the homepage URL, but the matches JSON is still displayed.
Browser: Safari 7.0.4
Chrome Windows Version 35.0.1916.153