A Brief Introduction to the Real-Time Cricket Content API

Whether you are looking for a real-time news feed on cricket for a sports/news website or application, are seeking historical data on a specific league, team, or player to make better-informed investment decisions, or seek to remain updated on the most relevant stories and events, our recently-launched APIs may come in handy.

In order to find Connexun’s Cricket API, enter its name in the search box at the RapidAPI service or go to the “Top Cricket APIs” collection list and select the “Real-Time Cricket Content API” from the list. The Basic Real-Time Cricket Content API through RapidAPI is free, so you can use it freely as long as you do not exceed 33 calls per day.

Connexun’s Real-Time Cricket Content API Endpoint

All of the APIs on RapidAPI have some subsections: namely Endpoints, About, Tutorials, Discussions, and Pricing. The main information on how to use the API is placed in the Endpoints subsection. If you need some additional details, you can find them under the API About subsection. Also, you can ask for support or further information about something related to the API in the Discussions subsection.

The API functionality is presented in the Endpoints subsection of the Real-Time Cricket Content API section. The window is divided into three main areas. The first area on the left displays a list of available endpoints (tasks). For Connexun’s Cricket API, the following task is presented:

• Real-time_cricket_content: The API returns real-time and historical content and information on cricket from trusted sources worldwide. Our crawler scrapes content published by over 20.000 highly-trusted online sources in different languages from different countries, thus enabling our users to be the first to pick up on emerging stories and most relevant information. It ensures a real-time view into the world of cricket with our solution, or collect historical structured data on the most relevant past stories and events.
  • Returns a list of items that discuss cricket. Identified by its IAB code IAB17-9, this endpoint returns news items that contain topics such as cricket, cricketer, Cricket Leagues etc. Similar news topics are clustered together.

Example of API Calls

For each endpoint, you can fill in the required parameters in the second area of the Endpoints subsection window and immediately test it by clicking the blue “Test Endpoint” button shown below. The response for the current endpoint will be displayed in the third area on the right. Learn more about using RapidAPI here.

All information can be retrieved in the following languages:
en – English,
es – Spanish,
fr- French,
de – German,
it – Italian,
ru – Russian,
hi – Hindi,
pl – Polish,
uk – Ukrainian,
pa – Punjab
Take into account also two more parameters, namely “limit”, which can be used to put a cap on the maximum number of results returned in each call, and “skip”, which combined with the limit parameter, can be used for pagination, where for each subsequent API call the value of skip increases via limit of the previous call, thus obtaining a continuous feed.

Cricket API Code Snippets

We should also mention the Request Snippet block on the right side of the third area of the Endpoints’ subsection. You can choose your preferred programming language and immediately get the code that implements the task that you have just tested. The Real-Time Cricket Content API is now available through RapidAPI for the following programming languages:

• Node.js
• C
• Clojure
• C#
• Go
• HTTP
• Java
• JavaScript
• Kotlin
• Objective-C
• OCaml
• PHP
• Powershell
• Python
• R
• RapidQL
• Ruby
• Shell
• Swift

For example, here is a Python snippet:

var unirest = require("unirest");

var req = unirest("GET", "https://real-time-cricket-content.p.rapidapi.com/cricket");

req.query({
  "skip": "0",
  "limit": "10",
  "langs": "en,es,fr,de,it,ru,hi,pl,uk,pa"
});

req.headers({
  "x-rapidapi-key": "INSERT-YOUR-KEY-HERE",
  "x-rapidapi-host": "real-time-cricket-content.p.rapidapi.com",
  "useQueryString": true
});


req.end(function (res) {
  if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);

  console.log(res.body);
});

Header Parameter

X-RapidAPI-Host and X-RapidAPI-Key parameters are used for identification and billing purposes. You should include these parameters in all requests generated from any environment. While viewing endpoints in a browser, you can change the RapidAPI Project to change the key.

RapidAPI’s Dashboard provides additional useful functions. You can track all the API calls through RapidAPI in one place, analyze errors and billing information.

What Structured Data to Collect

The Cricket Content API provide news & information published within the last 48 hours. For each news, each user can retrieve the following parameters:
1. Title
2. URL
3. Description if provided by the source
4. Extractive two sentences general summary
5. Nationality of source
6. URL of the image from the news if any exist
7. Name of media source
8. Countries about which the news is talking about
9. Publication date and time
10. Language
11. Related number of news in db
12. Data about related news
13. General sentiment of title with its confidence level, could be positive (confidence above 0) or negative (confidence below 0)
14. Keywords of news
15. Extractive summary with respect to extracted entities
16. Mentioned cities in text
17. IAB categories

You may be able to find additional content and integrate such information through another endpoint present within our news APIs, namely “topic research”. Topic research may enable users to find and retrieve data on a specific league, team, player or game. It may further enrich your feed of news/database.

Conclusion

In this article, we showed how to quickly and easily embed a real-time cricket content API in applications and websites.

By collecting content on specific teams, players, leagues and using the power of machine learning, some may go one step further and try to leverage data to forecast future performances. The ability to make predictions using machine learning models will be useful in those cases when there is no data available for classical models, and will also enable users to predict performance not just at a league level, but at a team or even player level. But this is a topic for another post.

More News & Information APIs

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