I wrote about @betman idea about decentralized bet exchange few days ago and how we can get information about current events from betexplorer web site with help of Perl programming language. I finished script which gets 'next matches' web page from Betexplorer, extracts useful data and writes it in mysql database. It's working and I am testing it now over cron job on Linux server. It fills data good so far.
What surprised me is that scripts which should do other spots didn't need much more work, just some minor changes of few lines of code. Basketball, baseball, volleyball, handball, ice hockey are with same tags and on same principle like soccer. I have one script for every sport ran by cron periodically which is filling respectable database.
Future decentralized bet exchange where users enter events they like could compare user input and results against this database. Crons are working on 15 minutes and didn't get blocked by now which means that they don't care much for few perl get URLs against web pages on that web site. I'll see if that will stay like this in nearby future. If so no need for expressvpn, other server doing get URLs etc...
I hope there won't be some gremlins in result fields, but even if they show up I'll clear them easily. What this potential project would need now is some web development like user login, secure connection to scorum wallets of logged in users, connection to this database and forms for entering events, making bets and checking results.
If some upstream scorum developer wants to check this perl code, or this database he can contact me in messages bellow and I'll give him perl source code or access to database if he is willing to make this decentralized bet exchange with all those sports.
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