Laravel Bets Api

Description

A package which helps you use the API of BetsApi. BetsApi is a paid service which provides sports data. You can find more about them at https://betsapi.com.

Laravel Bets Api is an unofficial package and not all of the endpoints are covered. I am just a client of theirs which happens to use their services on few projects and that motivated me to extract the code into an open-source package.

Installation

composer require andonovn/laravel-bets-api

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\ServiceProvider"

Add the BETS_API_TOKEN env variable to your .env file. As you may already guessed, that's the BetsApi token that you can obtain by registering in their website, and then subscribing to a plan of your choice.

You can also optionally add the BETS_API_ENDPOINT env variable. By default it is set to https://api.b365api.com/v1/

The package utilize the Laravel's package auto-discovery feature. If you use an old version of Laravel that does not support that, then you can manually add Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\ServiceProvider to the list of your service providers which are located in the /config/app.php's providers array

Usage

Resolve the Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\BetsApi class from the container and use one of the public methods. Here is an example:

public function index(\Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\BetsApi $betsApi)
{
    $leagues = $betsApi->soccerLeagues();
    
    // $leagues will now be an array of all the supported leagues in soccer, use it as per your needs
    
    dd($leagues); // take a look at the structure
}

Error handling

An Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Exceptions\CallFailedException will be raised when an API call fails. Also, there are few more exceptions which are less likely to occur but you can be safe by handling all of them by just catching the abstract Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Exceptions\BetsApiException. In case you want to learn more about the exceptions, they are all located in the Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Exceptions namespace.

Events

An Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Events\RequestFailed will be dispatched when a request fails. The package will try to retry the request until it hits the max allowed retries specified in the config. Note that the event will be raised for every retry that was made. When it hits the attempts limit, it will throw the Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Exceptions\CallFailedException exception as described above.

There is one more event that the package raise and that's the Andonovn\LaravelBetsApi\Events\ResponseReceived which you may use to track how many requests you have left, and other similar info that's available in each response.