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How to get Live Text- Football API sample code

Posted on July 05, 2020

Share the sample code using the interface call of iSports Api Sports Data www.isportsapi.com.This API endpoint returns the content of live text of the specified match ID. You can use it with the Match List of Live Text endpoint.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class SportDemo {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Set url parameter
    String url = "http://api.isportsapi.com/sport/football/livetext?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&matchId=ID";

    // Call iSport Api to get data in json format
    String charset = "UTF-8";
    String jsonResult = get(url, charset);

        System.out.println(jsonResult);
  }

  /**
   * @param url
   * @param charset
   * @return return json string
   */
  public static String get(String url, String charset) {
    BufferedReader reader = null;
    String result = null;
    StringBuffer sbf = new StringBuffer();
    String userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.66 Safari/537.36";
    try {
      URL newUrl = new URL(url);
      HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)newUrl.openConnection();
      connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
      connection.setReadTimeout(30000);
      connection.setConnectTimeout(30000);
      connection.setRequestProperty("User-agent", userAgent);
      connection.connect();
      InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
      reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, charset));
      String strRead = null;
      while ((strRead = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        sbf.append(strRead);
        sbf.append("\r\n");
      }
      reader.close();
      result = sbf.toString();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return result;
  }
}

The football API returns the data as follows:

{
  "code": 0,
  "message": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "liveId": "8622013",
      "content": "Lineups are announced and players are warming up.",
      "matchTime": 1567466471
    },
    {
      "liveId": "8622014",
      "content": "First Half begins.",
      "matchTime": 1567466471
    },
    {
      "liveId": "8622015",
      "content": "3'Foul by Marquinhos Silva (Avaí).",
      "matchTime": 1567466471
    }
  ]
}

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