Established in 2013 by a group of sports enthusiasts, Oddspedia prides itself on providing top-quality information to millions of sports fans and punters worldwide, offering the most comprehensive online sports coverage with details on 30 sports and 12,000 leagues, including odds and scores for over 20,000 events monthly.
- requests
- pandas
- datetime
- time
- json
The data collected and extracted from the website consists of odds generated by global bookmakers. Each match on the website has a set of estimated bettings odds.
Oddspedia has betting odds for many domains: the domain the client is concerned with is the the competitive first person shooter Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) for
the dates Jan. 1 2022
to Present
.
The client wanted the following elements from the webpage:
- The odds for all bookmakers for the
Match Winner
category and for all theMaps
. - The
Match Handicap
odds for all the matches. Match Details
for all the matches especially the name of the teams, the venue, the starting time, and the starting date.Odds Movement
for all the matches specifically the highest odds, the lowest odds, and the average odds.
A picture of all the elements are shown in Table 1 below.
Match Odds | Handicap Odds |
---|---|
Match Details | Odds Movement |
Table 1: Screenshots of each section of the website that requires data extraction.
A short peak into what the collected, organized, and pre-processed data looks like.
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