Introduction to the Course

Learn about API football, the services it offers, and how we will move forward with this course.

We'll cover the following

Football has a massive global following with rising demand for platforms that can keep fans up-to-date with everything in the football world. We, as developers, can meet this demand by creating applications and websites to track football statistics. That’s where API-Football comes in.

API-Football

API-Football is a great resource for any football application. It is an API that provides statistics for over 880 football leagues and cups.

All we have to do is integrate its endpoints with our app, and our users will have access to all the data they need.

API Football

The football API offers two types of services:

  1. Endpoints can be embedded in our website or application and provide the requested data in the form of a JSON object.
  2. Widgets can be integrated with our website and provide the requested data in HTML format.

We will be looking at both these services in this course.

Prerequisites

To understand the content of this course, you should have a basic understanding of APIs and the Python programming language.

Course content

This course will cover all the steps that you need to integrate this API with your website or application.

  • We will start with the authentication process to get our API key.
  • We will look at the types of endpoints and how to use them.
  • We will learn about the different types of widgets and how to use each.