Glossary
Odds API
An odds API is an interface that delivers bookmaker and exchange prices as structured data your software can read, instead of scraping betting sites yourself.
An odds API serves sports prices — match odds, totals, handicaps and more — as predictable, machine-readable data over an authenticated HTTP request. It replaces the brittle, ongoing work of scraping each bookmaker with one consistent interface.
The quality that separates odds APIs is not just breadth but what arrives ready to use: raw aggregated prices still leave you to normalise, match and rate them, whereas an already-matched feed delivers back prices paired against exchange lay, rated and oddsmatcher-ready.
OddsRelay is an odds API of the second kind — deep UK coverage with bet365 included, delivered already matched, with South African and Nigerian domestic coverage the big aggregators skip.
OddsRelay delivers this as part of one already-matched feed. See live coverage on the coverage dashboard.