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AMK Bookmaker Odds

by AMK · github.com/aregmk/amk-bookmaker-odds

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/aregmk/amk-bookmaker-odds/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/aregmk/amk-bookmaker-odds ↗

How to Use?

  1. Download this repository and install as a standard WP plugin.
  2. Download demo bookmakers.xml from https://github.com/aregmk/Bookmaker-Odds-Server/blob/main/bookmakers.xml
  3. Import bookmakers through standard WP Import Tool: /wp-admin/import.php
  4. Go to any post/page, edit and add "AMK Bookmaker Odds" block.
  5. Edit block settings from right sidebar: a) Add scraping url: https://aregmk.github.io/Bookmaker-Odds-Server/Oddschecker.html b) Set which bookmakers you want to show on frontend
  6. Save the page and check the results.

Limitations

It is extremely hard to scrape data from big players like oddschecker.com or oddsportal.com. Not only they often change their css classes by setting not human-friendly names to make it impossible to do correct and reliable xpath queries for scraping, but also these sites render their important content with React on frontend, so it is impossible to scrape with PHP requests.

My temporary solution in the scope of the task

I have decided to manually fetch an example page from oddschecker.com and host it in github. So now I can scrape the data from that page. I know it is not a live data, but I had to find a quick solution to showcase my plugin.

Notes

I decided to use WP native features in many cases, for example, I created Bookmaker CPT to store bookmaker data, so the admin can easily add/remove/disable any bookmaker through WP native, intuitive and user-friendly interface. Bookmaker posts have metadata which is used when we render the "AMK Bookmaker Odds" block. Bookmakers can be enabled/disabled on block level.