This should be now working for the World Cup in 2018! (Okay, now really working aside from zone minor time zone issues. Should have all events and goals streaming live, please file an issue if you notice any.)

Main response endpoint: http://worldcup.sfg.io/matches

Note: FIFA is now using much more JS that they were 4 years ago to hide and show information. I'll try to make sure as the tournament goes on that things like penalties are showing up correctly. As always, this runs on a scraper. Changes to HTML structure or banning the IP address it is scraping from could break it at any time. PRs welcome.

FIFA has changed their HTML structure from all previous tournaments. I can surmise how all results and goals show up, but I'm not yet sure about events (cards, subs, etc). I will try to have this working within 24 hours of the first match being played, and add any extra information they are displaying this time.

This is a simple backend for a scraper that grabs current world cup results and outputs them as JSON. UPDATE 8 Jun 2015 - This is now working for the Women's World Cup. Update 14 June 2018 - Updated for the World Cup in 2018 with 7 hours to spare!

• Clone the repo

• rake db:setup setup:generate_teams to initialize the database and generate the teams

• Run the following two tasks as cron jobs, to pull in data with whatever time frame you want (every 5 minutes for example)

rake fifa:get_all_matches (This pulls in all matches and updates any that need updating)

rake fifa:get_all_events (This scans for events - goals, substitutions, and cards, and updates the match data accordingly)

[url]/teams/

for a list of teams with group ID and FIFA code

[url]/matches/

for all matches (Example JSON object at the bottom of this README)

[url]/teams/results

results for each team (wins, losses, points, goals_for, goals_away, games_played)

[url]/teams/group_results

results for each group, teams ordered by current groups standings. Includes group letter, team, points, and goal differential

[url]/matches/today/
[url]/matches/tomorrow/

(what it says on the tin)

You can also retrieve the matches for any team if you know their FIFA code by passing it in as a param.

Example: [url]/matches/country?fifa_code=USA

• You can append ?callback=foo to get a JSONP response

  Example: http://worldcup.sfg.io/matches/today?callback=bar

• You can append ?by_date=desc to any query tosort the matches by furthest in the future to furthest in the past. ?by_date=asc does past to future.

  Example:[url]/matches/today/?by_date=DESC

You can also use the by param to get some other sortings of the match list.

• total_goals will sort matches with the largest number of total goals to the least

• home_team_goals will sort matches with the largest number of home team goals to the least

• away_team_goals will sort matches with the largest number of away team goals to the least

• closest_scores will sort matches with draws first to largest winning marging

  Example:[url]/matches/current/?by=closest_scores

The API also supports JSONP style output via the callback parameter, e.g. [url]/teams/results?callback=processData responds with

processData(
	[
		{
				"id": 1,
				"country": "Brazil",
				"alternate_name": null,
				"fifa_code": "BRA",
				...
		}
	]
)

The response includes the same data output as the regular GET call without parameters, but wrapped inside a function. This can be used to get around cross origin issues.

MATCH API

[
    {
        "venue":  "Brazil",
        "location": "Arena Corinthians",
        "datetime": "2014-06-12T17:00:00.000-03:00",
        "status": "in progress",
	"time": "halftime",
        "home_team": {
            "country": "Brazil",
            "code": "BRA",
            "goals": 3
        },
        "away_team": {
            "country": "Croatia",
            "code": "CRO",
            "goals": 1
        },
        "winner": "Brazil",

        "home_team_events": [
            {
                "id": 11,
                "type_of_event": "goal-own",
                "player": "Marcelo",
                "time": "11"
            },
            {
                "id": 14,
                "type_of_event": "yellow-card",
                "player": "Neymar Jr",
                "time": "27"
            },
            {
                "id": 15,
                "type_of_event": "goal",
                "player": "Neymar Jr",
                "time": "29"
            },
            {
                "id": 13,
                "type_of_event": "substitution-in",
                "player": "Hernanes",
                "time": "63"
            },
            {
                "id": 12,
                "type_of_event": "substitution-in",
                "player": "Bernard",
                "time": "68"
            },
            {
                "id": 16,
                "type_of_event": "goal-penalty",
                "player": "Neymar Jr",
                "time": "71"
            },
            {
                "id": 19,
                "type_of_event": "yellow-card",
                "player": "L Gustavo",
                "time": "88"
            },
            {
                "id": 17,
                "type_of_event": "substitution-in",
                "player": "Ramires",
                "time": "88"
            },
            {
                "id": 18,
                "type_of_event": "goal",
                "player": "Oscar",
                "time": "901"
            }
            ],
        "away_team_events": [
            {
                "id": 23,
                "type_of_event": "substitution-in",
                "player": "BrozoviĆ",
                "time": "61"
            },
            {
                "id": 20,
                "type_of_event": "yellow-card",
                "player": "Corluka",
                "time": "66"
            },
            {
                "id": 21,
                "type_of_event": "yellow-card",
                "player": "Lovren",
                "time": "69"
            },
            {
                "id": 22,
                "type_of_event": "substitution-in",
                "player": "RebiĆ",
                "time": "78"
            }
        ]
    },
]

GROUP RESULTS API

[{"id":1,"country":"Russia","alternate_name":null,"fifa_code":"RUS","group_id":1,"group_letter":"A","wins":1,"draws":0,"losses":0,"games_played":1,"points":3,"goals_for":5,"goals_against":0,"goal_differential":5}...

http://worldcup.sfg.io/matches

http://worldcup.sfg.io/matches/today

http://worldcup.sfg.io/group_results

http://worldcup.sfg.io/teams

(What will you build?)

• http://alexb.ninja/wc

• https://github.com/fatiherikli/worldcup (displays World Cup results in the terminal)

• https://github.com/ColtCarder/XMPP-World-Cup-Bot (Ruby/Blather XMPP Bot to private message live World Cup events as well as overall results.)

• https://github.com/gberger/hubot-world-cup-live (Hubot plugin that pushes World Cup goals to a chat room)

• World Cup SMS updates at http://worldcupsms.herokuapp.com/ by @andyjiang

• https://github.com/brenopolanski/chrome-worldcup2014-extension (World Cup 2014 - Chrome Extension)

• http://worldcup2014.meteor.com/ - betting pool app for @q42 built by @primigenus using @meteor

• https://github.com/Friss/WorldCup - World Cup matches with the arena in the background

• https://github.com/sestaton/WorldCupStats - World Cup stats and match information at the command line

You can read a blog post about building the API here: http://softwareforgood.com/soccer-good/

Most of this was written in a rush 4 years ago, and the rest was written in a rush on day 1 of the World Cup in 2018 to adjust for the new FIFA CMS and live updates via JS. This is not good object oriented code. Scraping is inherently a messy and brittle procedural process. I may try to refactor, but my primary goal was the get something functional. Please do not use as an example of good Rails code!