Live Scores Feature

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Hello Everyone,

I am working on an extremely important project and one of the criteria is that I need to have a live scores or even just final scores feed from NFL, MLB and NBA games. I am having a very difficult time trying to figure out how to implement this into the website.

Just so you have a visual, check out these websites and the live scores in the header on the homepage. Their designs are exactly what I am looking for.

http://www.bleacherreport.com
http://www.espn.com
http://www.nfl.com

All of the live score features they display in the header is what I need to make happen with my website. Please, anyone help is very appreciated. Also, I know people have said to implement RSS Feeds, but I do not know where to find RSS Feeds for NFL, NBA and MLB live scores.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you!

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hey
If there is no source to get the data from like rss you might first check the legal stuff around getting and presenting the live scores. I did a project like yours and was asap contacted by lawyers from the source to take away my display of their content.

So legal is the first thing I would checkout.

If legal is ok and you have some written approval to use their data use parsehub or similar software to extract the data as JSON and then you can use fetch to get that but there will be a delay.

If you need realtime live score you need to have access to their API or some service that will give you the data.

When I did a quick google on live sport data api I found this resource.

https://www.enetpulse.com/sports-data-api/

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