Calculate the Sure Bets for the upcoming soccer matches by scraping a website that show all the odds from different betting houses.
It's a very short JAVA program that does the work by:
- Reading data from a website
- Parsing the data to extract relevant information
- Calculate the list of soccer matches with Sure Bets from the extracted information
WARNING! Be careful executing this program, it's scraping a website and programming repeated executions could affect the target website performance.
It's a JAVA 8 project using maven and the following library for HTML parsing: jsoup.
About jsoup in their website jsoup.org:
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
Just run the JAVA code and you will get the results in the system output.
You will first see that some processing is going on to extract the data for the next 11 days. The day and the number of soccer matches being processed is displayed.
Processing date: 2018-03-05 ( 71 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-06 ( 167 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-07 ( 230 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-08 ( 125 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-09 ( 186 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-10 ( 884 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-11 ( 762 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-12 ( 109 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-13 ( 115 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-14 ( 224 matches )
Processing date: 2018-03-15 ( 46 matches )
Then you will get the list of Sure Bets for the upcoming soccer matches, ordered by earnings rate descending:
11-03-2018 Dinamarca - 1. Division Esbjerg Fredericia 888sport 888sport MARCA 3.65 3.4 4.2 24,04 %
11-03-2018 Italia - Serie A Bologna Atalanta bet365/W.HILL/888sport Interw./betfair Interw. 4.0 3.3 2.3 1,23 %
10-03-2018 Inglaterra - League 2 Coventry Barnet W.HILL bwin bwin 2.0 3.6 4.75 1,18 %
05-03-2018 Argentina - Superliga San Martin San Independiente bet365 MARCA/betfair 888sport 4.5 3.25 2.17 0,93 %
06-03-2018 Inglaterra - Championship Ful Ham Sheffield Unite betfair betfair bet365 1.95 3.9 4.5 0,86 %
05-03-2018 Inglaterra - Premier League Crystal Palace Manchester Unit betfair bet365/888sport/MARCA/bet Interw. 8.0 4.5 1.55 0,77 %
08-03-2018 Internacional - Europa League Atlético Madrid Lok. Moscow 888sport Interw. MARCA 1.3 6.0 17.0 0,53 %
11-03-2018 Alemania - 2. Bundesliga Union Berlin Aue Interw. MARCA bet365 1.8 3.75 5.75 0,39 %
06-03-2018 Inglaterra - Championship Hull Millwall betfair betfair bet365 2.5 3.4 3.29 0,19 %
06-03-2018 Internacional - Champions Leag Paris Saint Ger Real Madrid Interw./betfair bet365 betfair 2.1 4.2 3.5 0,00 %
06-03-2018 Inglaterra - Championship Birmingham Middlesbrough bet365 bet365/bwin betfair 4.2 3.5 2.1 0,00 %
The final tabulated information shows the following data on each column:
- Day of soccer match, with format "dd-MM-yyyy"
- League or tournament
- First soccer team
- Second soccer team
- Betting house/s with best odd for result first team wins (1)
- Betting house/s with best odd for result tie (X)
- Betting house/s with best odd for result second team wins (2)
- Odd value for result first team wins (1)
- Odd value for result tie (X)
- Odd value for result second team wins (2)
- Earnings rate
- Add tests
- Use persistent storage
- Marco Galluzzi - marcogalluzzi