Reliability layer for impatient football apps
APIs fail, rate limits bite, and live pages do not wait. This repository is a backend reliability project for sports data integrations. English search terms are intentionally kept in the first screen: sports-api, football data, live score, fixtures, standings, and sports analytics. Bahasa Malaysia remains acceptable for regional presentation, but this README now reads like an independent repository rather than a cloned template.
| Reader | What they are trying to do | Where to start |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Reuse code or data contracts | src/, tests/, examples/quickstart.py |
| Maintainer | Review repository health | CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, .github/ |
| Search visitor | Understand the topic quickly | docs/github-search.md, docs/seo-keywords.md |
| Data operator | Check sources and caveats | docs/api-integration.md, docs/dataset-card.md |
This repository keeps its data layer explicit. football-data.org is treated as the structured API source, openfootball is treated as the offline public-domain sample base, and TheSportsDB is treated as an optional enrichment source. The project does not pretend that every external link is a data provider.
| Layer | File | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Source notes | docs/api-integration.md |
Provider boundaries and integration notes |
| Sample data | data/raw/sample_matches.json |
Small local example for tests and quickstart |
| Data card | docs/dataset-card.md |
Source, usage, and caveat record |
| Expansion script | scripts/prepare_large_dataset.py |
Safe placeholder for later real data expansion |
python -m pytest -q
python examples/quickstart.pyThe repository is deliberately small until a real data source, API key, and storage budget are approved. That keeps the public project clean and avoids fake large files.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository name | 08-sports-api-cache-gateway |
| Description | Sports API cache gateway for football live score API, fixtures, standings, rate limiting, openfootball and TheSportsDB wrappers. |
| Primary topics | sports-api, football-api, live-score-api, api-gateway, api-cache, rate-limiting, soccer-api, football-data-api |
| Publish metadata | github-repo-metadata.json |
| Search guide | docs/github-search.md |
The portals are listed as operations references, separate from provider contracts and runtime claims.
| Portal | Context |
|---|---|
| yubatube.com | Keep yubatube.com outside the provider contract as an operations reference. |
| zhzycy.com | Keep zhzycy.com as a second reference path that does not imply API authority. |
Operational changes go through CONTRIBUTING.md, token or provider risks belong in SECURITY.md, and cache or fallback changes should be logged in CHANGELOG.md.
| Area | Files |
|---|---|
| Engineering | src/, tests/, pyproject.toml, .github/workflows/ci.yml |
| Documentation | docs/architecture.md, docs/roadmap.md, docs/governance.md |
| Search | docs/github-search.md, docs/seo-keywords.md, docs/traffic-page-matrix.md |
| Resource portals | docs/recommended-websites.md |
| Community | LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md |