How to create a working free parser?

Question

Parsing

Good day!
My name is Pavel Aksenov, and I started creating my own website. The site is associated with sports betting, you can call it the buzzword "marketplace" and the betting exchange, whatever you like. I have always been attracted to stakes. I bet myself and there are many friends who bet. I've been doing this for quite some time. After some time, I began to study the topic of bets and earnings more and began to stumble upon sites where there are forecasters (let's call them betting gurus) who give advice on how and what to bet on. Such sites (there are quite a lot of them) have ratings, forums, and so on, but I didn’t like them, because I didn’t like them. to find something worthwhile, I had to spend a lot of time on the site and, in fact, “a pig in a poke”.

I decided to create something similar, but what makes me noticeably different from others. Convenient interface, design, honest, quick rating, automated calculation, everything was done through the freelance exchange. Of course, out of ignorance (but this is inaccurate), I came across unscrupulous performers, and at first I paid a small advance payment, and people disappeared. As they say, without sucker and life is bad. Further, I managed to find an exchange where you can do everything through a safe transaction, where the exchange itself acts as a guarantor (no, this is not fl.ru). After doing a lot of work, writing dozens of technical specifications for the design and those parts, I finally got the site. Of course, he was far from ideal, but since. It was generally my first such entry into the world of business, I was happy.

The site worked, there you could upload your thoughts about this or that event, but there was always a problem. In order for the forecaster to bet, I need to "get" the odds from the bookmaker's office. There are many services that give this for money, starting at $350 per month. Of course, such an amount for the initial stage is unbearable for me and I did everything through a parser that gave odds and calculated the results of the matches in order to find out if the bet was passed or not. Of course, this parser constantly crashes, gives incomplete data and functions with grief in half.

I would like to ask knowledgeable people, as well as those who can help with advice or are somehow connected with the like. Tell me how and if it is possible to make a similar functionality on the site, getting the odds and results of the games, for calculation.

I will be grateful for every comment, advice.
Thanks for taking the time to read and have a great day!

Answer 1

Yes, it can be done and quite simply.
How many websites do you get odds from?