Many websites such as Flashscore, Sofascore, Oddsportal and WhoScored display live football match scores. This data can be scraped in real time and used in your own applications, scripts, or for analysis and making betting decisions.
To scrape live score data you can make use of web scraping tools or API (if you are a developer). If you are searching for a no-code solution to scrape football live scores, then WebHarvy can be used.
WebHarvy can be downloaded and installed locally in your computer. Like a web browser, you can load web pages within WebHarvy, and select the data to scrape by simple mouse clicks. Being a generic web scraper, WebHarvy can be used to scrape data from any website, including sports websites.
Scraping Football Live Scores using WebHarvy
The following are the steps to scrape football live scores using WebHarvy.
- Download and install WebHarvy in your computer
- Open WebHarvy
- Load the website from which you need to scrape live score data.
- Navigate to the page displaying the match data or the list of matches
- Click the ‘Start Configuration‘ menu button.
- Click and select the data which you need to scrape. Details like home/away team names, match date, score etc. can be selected in this manner.
- If the starting page contains multiple matches, WebHarvy will automatically scrape the selected data from subsequent matches.
- If the match list span across multiple pages, click on the link to load the next page and set it as the next page link.
- You can also follow each match link to load its details page, from where more details can be selected for extraction. To follow a link, click on the link and select the ‘Follow this link‘ option from the Capture window.
- Once you have selected all required data, click the ‘Stop Configuration’ menu button.
- You may now optionally save the configuration so that it can be run or edited later.
- Click on the ‘Start Mine’ button to start scraping data
- The scraped data can be saved to a file or database
- The saved configuration can be scheduled to be run periodically (every hour, every 5 minutes etc.)
Scraping football live score from Sofascore.com
Video displayed below demonstrates how WebHarvy can be used to scrape football live scores, winning odds, line up etc. from Sofascore website.
In addition to scraping scores, other match data like winning odds, team line up etc. can be scraped for all live matches.
Scraping WhoScored.com Live Match Scores
Video below shows how live match scores can be scraped from whoscored.com website. In addition to extracting match scores, the match event time line can also be scraped.
Scorebar.com Live Score Scraping
Video shown below demonstrates how football live scores can be scraped from Scorebar website
Try WebHarvy
We recommend that you download and try using the free evaluation version of WebHarvy available in our website. To get started, please follow the link given below.
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