Building with odds data
Reading, polling, storing and showing odds data in your own code.
- Efficient odds API polling with ETag and 304sSend the ETag back as If-None-Match and an unchanged reply is an empty 304 that costs no tokens.
- How odds feeds handle suspended and void marketsHow feeds mark a suspended or void market, and what your code should do when a price disappears.
- How to display odds data in your appTurn a nested odds response into table rows, format prices and show each price's age.
- How to monitor an odds feed in productionA frozen odds feed still answers 200. Three checks that catch what a health check misses.
- How to normalise odds across bookmakersBookmakers name the same fixture and selection differently. Where matching goes wrong, and how to join them.
- How to store and version odds dataKeep your own odds history: an append-only table, the feed's timestamps and fixture keys you own.
- Integrating an odds feed with AI coding toolsPoint an AI coding assistant at the keyless OpenAPI contract, then check what it writes.
- The anatomy of an odds API responseEvery field in a /v2 odds response, from the meta envelope down to each back and lay offer.
- Webhooks vs polling for odds dataOdds change continuously, with no single event to push. Why polling with ETags fits odds data.