//Miroslav Novotny//
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Flashscore API Scraper

Personal Project
Node.jsJavascriptAPIScraping

This project is a modified fork of the original FlashscoreScraping tool. The original logic was refactored from a local script that generated flat files into a standalone microservice that provides real-time data through a JSON interface.

Key Changes and Improvements

  • Transformation into an API: The server utilizes the native Node.js http module to deliver data through a dedicated /api/scrape endpoint.
  • Performance Optimization: While the original implementation performed a linear number of requests based on the match count, this version is optimized to use a fixed constant number of parallel requests. By collecting data simultaneously from both "results" and "fixtures" indexes, the total execution time has been dramatically reduced.

API Specification

Endpoint: GET /api/scrape

The service requires three query parameters to construct a valid request:

  • sport: Type of sport (e.g., hockey)
  • country: Country or region (e.g., world)
  • league: League name (e.g., world-championship)

Example Request:

GET /api/scrape?sport=hockey&country=world&league=world-championship