Cricket Score API 🏏

A simple PHP-based API that fetches live cricket scores from Cricbuzz URLs. 🎯

✨ Features

• 🌐 Web interface for easy score retrieval
• 🔌 JSON API endpoint
• ✅ URL validation
• ⚠️ Error handling
• 🔄 Live score extraction from Cricbuzz pages

📋 Requirements

• 🔧 PHP 7.0 or higher
• 📦 DOM and libxml PHP extensions

🚀 Usage

💻 Web Interface

1. Access the root URL without parameters to view the web interface
2. Enter a valid Cricbuzz URL in the input field
3. Click "Get Score" to fetch the live score

🔗 API Endpoint

Make a GET request with the url parameter:

GET /?url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/[match-id]

📝 Response Format

Success Response:

{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Current Score",
    "data": "Team A 100/2 (15.2 Ov)"
}

Error Response:

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "Error description"
}

⚠️ Error Messages

• "Invalid URL format" - The provided URL is not properly formatted
• "Failed to retrieve data from the source" - Unable to fetch data from Cricbuzz
• "Score card not found" - Unable to locate score information on the page

🔒 Security Features

• 🛡️ URL validation using filter_var()
• 📨 JSON content-type headers
• 🧹 Input sanitization

⚡ Limitations

• 🔄 Depends on Cricbuzz's HTML structure
• ⚠️ May break if Cricbuzz changes their page layout
• 💾 No caching mechanism implemented

📞 Support