How to Build a Real-Time Sports Betting Odds Tracker

How to Build a Real-Time Sports Betting Odds Tracker Sports betting odds shift constantly as bookmakers react to wagers, injuries, and breaking news. Tracking these movements in real time gives you an edge for arbitrage finding, line analysis, or comparison tools. Core Odds Scraper import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from dataclasses import dataclass , field from datetime import datetime import sqlite3 , time @dataclass class OddsEntry : bookmaker : str sport : str event : str market : str selection : str odds : float timestamp : datetime = field ( default_factory = datetime . now ) class OddsTracker : def __init__ ( self , db_path = ' odds.db ' , api_key = None ): self . db = sqlite3 . connect ( db_path ) self . api_key = api_key self . session = requests . Session () self . _init_db () def _init_db ( self ): self . db . execute ( ''' CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS odds ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, bookmaker TEXT, sport TEXT, event TEXT, market TEXT, selection TEXT, o