Tennis Data Feeds
Tennis data feeds offer a wide range of structured data from live scores and results to statistics, tennis rankings and game tips. While we have already covered the benefits of implementing different types of data feeds such as XML, CSV, RSS or widgets, this article we will show you how to get implemented in your web pages a few free sources of tennis data and also get better SEO results.
TennisStats247.com is the data provider in our below examples and while it offers different data implementations like iframe widgets & white labels or RSS feeds, we will show you how to include RSS data in your website content in a way that both offers useful updated content in your pages and also creates a good SEO value as the content will be seen as originating from your own website.
Below RSS implementations require some simple PHP codes implementations, therefore in order for the code to be run in your website, the pages should be either .php or, if .html / .htm, you can include a command in your .htaccess so that your server runs PHP code within .htm/.html web files.
Match Results per Tennis Competition
To show the latest match results from a tennis tournament you can use the following code:
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<div><?php $html = ""; $url = "http://www.tennisstats247.com/TournamentFeed.aspx?langId=1&tournamentId=16241"; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++){ $title = $xml->channel->item[$i]->title; $link = $xml->channel->item[$i]->link; $description = $xml->channel->item[$i]->description; $html .= "$description"; $html .= "<hr />"; } echo $html; ?></div> |
Implementation:
- Copy the above code in a Notepad file for edit
- Visit TennisStats247 RSS Feeds page, go to the Tournament RSS Feed section and select the language you want the data to be provided in, country of tournament, tournament name and tournament type you are interested in to get the latest results
- Copy the link provided on Step 2 and Paste it in the Notepad file, on line 3, at the $url variable (changing the other link provided as example there between “”)
- In the Notepad file go line 5 where you have $i < 10. You can change here the value of 10 in another number as this will be the number of tennis game results showed by the code
- Copy the code from the Notepad file to the page where you want to show the latest match results and make sure the page is set to run the PHP code implemented. Upload the page on your web hosting account.
- Recommended to list the source of the data provided by including on your website a link to TennisStats247.com
Match Results for Individual Player
To show the latest match results for a single player from a tennis tournament you can use the following code:
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<div><?php $html = ""; $url = "http://www.tennisstats247.com/TournamentFeed.aspx?langId=1&tournamentId=16241"; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); foreach($xml->channel->item as $item) { if (strpos($item->description, 'Roger Federer') !== false){ $html .= $item->description ; $html .= $item->pubDate . "<hr />"; } } echo $html; ?></div> |
Implementation:
- Copy the above code in a Notepad file for edit
- Visit TennisStats247 RSS Feeds page, go to the Tournament RSS Feed section and select the language you want the data to be provided in, country of tournament, tournament name and tournament type you are interested in to get the latest results
- Copy the link provided on Step 2 and Paste it in the Notepad file, on line 3, at the $url variable (changing the other link provided as example there between “”)
- In the Notepad file go line 7 where you have ‘Roger Federer’. You can change here the text with the name of the player you are interested to show the results for (example: change the value to ‘Rafael Nadal’ – the player name needs to be exactly the same as in the RSS feed)
- Copy the code from the Notepad file to the page where you want to show the latest match results and make sure the page is set to run the PHP code implemented. Upload the page on your web hosting account.
- Recommended to list the source of the data provided by including on your website a link to TennisStats247.com
Pre-Match Predictions per Tennis Competition
To show the latest match results from a tennis tournament you can use the following code:
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<div><?php $html = ""; $url = "http://www.tennisstats247.com/MatchProbabilitiesFeed.aspx?langId=1&tournamentId=16241"; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url); for($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++){ $link = $xml->channel->item[$i]->link; $title = $xml->channel->item[$i]->title; $description = $xml->channel->item[$i]->description; $html .= "<strong><a href=$link>$title</a></strong><br/>$description"; $html .= "$pubDate<hr />"; } echo $html; ?></div> |
Implementation:
- Copy the above code in a Notepad file for edit
- Visit TennisStats247 RSS Feeds page, go to the Tournament RSS Feed section and select the language you want the data to be provided in, country of tournament, tournament name and tournament type you are interested in to get the pre-game predictions
- Copy the link provided on Step 2 and Paste it in the Notepad file, on line 3, at the $url variable (changing the other link provided as example there between “”)
- In the Notepad file go line 5 where you have $i < 6. You can change here the value of 6 in another number as this will be the number of tennis game probabilities returned by the code. Please note that predictions are only made available on the day of the games, for other days with no games in that tournament, the feed will return no entries.
- Copy the code from the Notepad file to the page where you want to show the latest match results and make sure the page is set to run the PHP code implemented. Upload the page on your web hosting account.
- Recommended to list the source of the data provided by including on your website a link to TennisStats247.com