How to parse sports events?

Question

Parsing

There is a sports project on laravel. It is necessary to parse all broadcasts in real time from other sports sites. Those. there is, for example, a football match, you need to parse what minute it is, how many cards, the score, who scored, and so on. How to organize it correctly? I already wrote the parser, there is an idea to run it every 20-30 seconds, do you think this is right? Maybe there is a more convenient way with the least load on the server? I hope someone has experience in this area.

Answer 1

Run every 20-30 seconds IMHO is not correct - I would make it a separate application.
And the fact that you need to parse every 20 seconds is correct.
See also websockets and rabbitmq - they will certainly come in handy.

Answer 2

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