What is the Football API?

As we’ve already established, the Sportal365 CMS is built on several RESTful APIs, with the Content API and the Football API being the most important, each serving a distinct purpose in the creation and delivery of unique sports content.

Understanding the Football API

The Football API gives you the independence to create sports-specific content that very few platforms in the world can match.

The Football API is responsible for fetching all the sports-related information from your data provider that you integrate into your articles–standings, matches, odds, top goal scorers, fixtures, and more–but it does more than that. It gives you the freedom to integrate with the data provider of your choice. As before, this doesn’t mean you receive data from several providers at once, but that we make it easy for you to switch providers if you ever need to.

Note that our platform is built from microservices, and the Football API can be viewed as one microservice that can be used separately.

Freedom to change the data provider

Integrating with a data provider is usually a lengthy and costly process. What’s more, providers tend to use proprietary formats that make it close to impossible to switch to another provider, even if you become unhappy with their service.

With us, you have the choice to integrate with the data provider you want, once you access our API.

Here’s how it works: your data still comes from Enetpulse, for example, but you’re no longer connected directly to Enetpulse. You’re connected to our Football API, and you use our proprietary format—which means you can change providers, whether for a better price or better coverage in your region, without the usual hassle.

In a way, we offer you a backup, but most of all, we give you freedom.

See also A sports-specific platform.