A live feed is not a fast archive. If the interval between passes is longer than the thing you are measuring, you have bought a slow dataset with a fast name.
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ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the competitions and the tiering; we build the pipeline, run the archive backfill once and the live collection on a per match schedule, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse, with events as a timestamped stream and time zones explicit.
We are direct about what a cadence costs and what it buys. Minute level collection across a defined watch list is affordable and sustainable; minute level collection across everything is neither, and we would rather quote the first than promise the second.
We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on LiveScore - and we collect it legally, with requests paced.
Fixture records cover sport, competition and stage, season, match identifier, home and away team, scheduled kickoff in local time and UTC, venue where published, and match status.
Live state is delivered as timestamped observations rather than as a value that gets overwritten: current score, half time score, elapsed minute, and the event stream of goals with scorer where published, cards, substitutions and penalties. Keeping the stream is what lets a client reconstruct the state of a match at any point rather than only how it finished.
Observation timing is recorded on every live row. A score without the moment it was read is not a fact about a match, it is a rumour with a number attached.
Match statistics are captured as published per competition, which varies considerably down the tiers: possession, shots, corners and cards where the competition supplies them, and recorded as absent where it does not rather than filled in.
Every row carries the competition and the collection timestamp, and kickoff times are stored with their time zone, because a fixture list that is an hour wrong twice a year is a fixture list nobody trusts.
Tiering is set with the client before anything is built: which competitions are live watched, which are polled slowly, and what happens on a matchday when several watched fixtures overlap. That conversation decides both the cost and whether the feed is usable, and having it late is how projects on this kind of source go wrong.
Entity matching is the hidden cost as soon as a second source joins. Team names differ between services, clubs share names across countries and player names vary with accents and transliteration. We match teams on competition context and aliases, players on birth date and squad, and keep every surface form so a join can be audited.
The archive is collected once. Past results never change, so a historical backfill is a one time job and normally the cheaper half of the project, while the live half carries the ongoing cost.
Where a client also needs authoritative standings, we take them from the competition's own site rather than from a results service, and join on the normalised competition identifier. The official source is more accurate.
LiveScore is a results service covering football in depth and a range of other sports alongside it. Its whole design is the live match: scores, minutes and events updating continuously while games are in progress, with fixtures before and results after.
That design decides how it should be collected. The archive half - yesterday's results, last season's fixtures - is static and cheap. The live half changes every few seconds and is the reason anybody is here. Running both on one schedule either overpays for the archive or misses the live state entirely, and it is the single most common mistake on this kind of source.
The site is addressed by sport and competition with a match page per fixture, and section fronts respond directly. Coverage extends past the major competitions into second tier and regional football, which is where a results service earns its place: major leagues are available everywhere, the long tail is not.
The front renders comparatively little text because the content is a live grid rather than an article, which is normal for this kind of service and says nothing about the data underneath.
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Full plan detailsOn this source the collection schedule is not a setting, it is the thing being bought. A feed that arrives every ten minutes cannot tell you the score at minute sixty three, and anything built on it that claims to be live will be wrong at exactly the moment people are watching.
Equally, collecting every fixture in every competition at minute level is wasteful and impolite. Most matches on any given day do not matter to any given client, and hammering a results service to collect them is how access gets withdrawn for everyone.
So the design is tiered and agreed up front. A defined watch list is collected at minute level through the match window; everything else runs at a slow interval or only after the final whistle. Fixtures are collected in advance on a light schedule, and once a match is over it moves into the archive and stops being polled at all.
The second reason to be here is the long tail. Second tier and regional competitions are frequently absent from official sources and from the bigger providers, and for a product that needs coverage rather than headline fixtures that tail is the whole point.
The third is that statistics thin out down the tiers. We record what a competition actually publishes and mark the rest as absent, rather than producing a column that is silently empty for half the rows.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, watches it through the season as competitions and pages change, and repairs it before matchday rather than after.
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Minute level on a defined watch list, and faster on a narrow set. What we will not do is promise minute level across every competition at once, because that is not a rate anyone can sustain politely. The design that works is a named list collected fast and everything else collected slowly.
Because most matches on any given day do not matter to any given client, and hammering a results service to collect them is how access gets withdrawn for everyone. Tiering keeps the feed affordable and keeps it working, which is worth more than a number in a proposal.
That is the main reason to use a results service. Major leagues are available everywhere; second tier and regional competitions are frequently absent from official sources and bigger providers. Statistics thin out down the tiers, and we record what each competition actually publishes rather than filling gaps.
Where you need authoritative standings we take them from the competition's own site and join on a normalised competition identifier. The official source is more accurate, and every row carries the competition and the collection timestamp.
With entity matching, which is the real work. Team names differ between services, clubs share names across countries and player names vary with accents. We match teams on competition context and aliases and players on birth date and squad, keeping every surface form so any join can be audited.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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