Parsing *Points

Sports Scores/Betting backend application that retrieves the latest scores and odds of games, leagues, or sporting events.

• Have you ever wanted to see the live scores for your favorite sport/team but didn’t want to parse through multiple websites?
• Wanted to find the best betting odds on a game/event regardless of the bookmaker?
• Maybe you want to store previous bets to see how successful you are at sport betting.

Parsing *Points has all the features a sport fan needs to place bets and see live scores.

Features

• Retrieves all in-season(sports)
• Retrieves live and completed scores for the past 3 days.
• Retrieves betting odds from multiple bookmakers and stores in table to reference odds/scores later.
• Allows users to place bets and give a prediction for potential earnings.
• Allows users to save their bets/predictions as a file(BetSlip) to print and take to their favorite sporting event.

Build Process

Installation & Necessary Libraries

The Parsing *Points utilizes various files, functions and libraries to return the Sports Data into a readable format for the user. Please complete the following steps to successfully run the program.

Clone Git Repository in to desired directory.

git clone https://github.com/L-sampson/Hackathon-Project.git

Obtain an API KEY from The Odds-API

Install the necessary Libraries:

1. Libcurl library to make HTTP GET Requests from The Odds-API.Libcurl
2. Nlohmann/Json library to parse through JSON objects in c++. JSON for Modern C++
3. Postgresql pqxx library to connect and store parsed data into SQL tables.libpqxx

File Tree Structure

The SERVER directory that contains two subdirectories: Logic and Data.

• The Data directory contains files that handle curl requests, URL endpoints and SQL queries functions.
• The Logic directory contains files that handle the parsing through the data based on URL endpoints, placing wagers, and print the BetSlip. File Tree:

    └── Hackathon-Project
     ├── Server
     │   └── data
     │       ├── curl_request.hpp
     |       ├── curl_request.cpp       
     │       ├── option_url.hpp
     |       ├── option_url.cpp
     │       ├── sql_queries.hpp
     │       └── sql_queries.cpp
     │   └── logic
     │       ├── get_function.hpp
     │       ├── get_functions.cpp
     │       ├── get_bet.cpp
     │       └── get_bet.hpp
     ├── bets.txt
     └── main.cpp

Complie & Run

Complile using the appropriate flags:

g++ main.cpp -o API ./data/*.cpp ./logic/*.cpp -I./logic -I./data -lcurl -lpqxx

Run as Postgres User:

postgres@penguin:/path/to/directory

Usage

main.cpp

#include<iostream>
#include "get_function.hpp"
#include "sql_queries.hpp"
#include "curl_request.hpp"
#include "option_url.hpp"

int main()
{
    //Reads API Key
    OptionURL choice = envFile();
    string option = choice.option;
    string url = choice.url;
    const char *view = url.c_str();

    if (option == "Sports")
    {
        //Returns avaiable sports
        getSports(view);
    }
    else if (option == "Odds")
    {
        //Returns Avaiable Odds
        getOdds(view);
    }
    else if (option == "Scores")
    {
        //Returns Avaiable Scores
        getScores(view);
    }

    return 0;
}

Prints Betting Slip

Betting Slip
Good Luck
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Team: Detroit Pistons, Wager: 500, Predicted Earnings: 1225
Total Wager Amount: $500
Total Predicted Earnings: $1225
Remaining Deposit: $0
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Founded 2023

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