Free Cricket API - Live Cricket Score JSON API 🏏

Santhosh Veer

Last update: Jan 2, 2023

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Overview

Free Cricket API 🍔

Live Cricket Score API 🏏

unofficial API Data Fetched from Cricbuzz.com

This is an unofficial API and not Linked or Partnered with Any Brands/Company.

Recently we shutdown our Free API Server due to bulk API Calls Personally we Suggest you to Self Host this API on your server - instant Deploy on Vercel and Heroku - https://github.com/mskian/cri-deploy#free-deploy-

How it Works? 🤔

We are just fetching the data from Cricbuzz using PHP cURL preg_match and preg_math_all. It's kind of scraping but we are not storing any data or link in our end.

Everything is scraped live and shown to end users in realtime.

Example: API URL 🌐

https://localhost:6001/cri.php?url=<Live Match URL>

Requirements 📑

Server with PHP Support
PHP 7.2 or 7.3 or 7.4 (Test upto PHP 8)
PHP cURL
Nginx, Apache2 or Lightspeed
HTTPS (For Secure SSL Connections)

Installation 🍯

Download or Clone Repo to your Server

git clone https://github.com/mskian/cricket-api.git
cd cricket-api
cd cri

Test the API

php -S localhost:6001

Usage 🍟

Get the Live Match Score URL from - https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-match/live-scores
Enter them Directly or replace www with m

Example 📋

http://localhost:6001/cri.php?url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/30524/53rd-match-indian-premier-league-2020

(OR)

http://localhost:6001/cri.php?url=https://m.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/30524/53rd-match-indian-premier-league-2020

Example Response 🌐

{
    "success": true,
    "livescore": {
        "title": "Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians, 56th Match",
        "current": "SRH - 145\/0 (16.2)",
        "batsman": "Wriddhiman Saha*",
        "batsmanrun": "57",
        "ballsfaced": "(43)",
        "fours": "7",
        "sixes": "1",
        "bowler": "Nathan Coulter-Nile*",
        "bowlerover": "3.2",
        "bowlerruns": "25",
        "bowlerwickets": "0",
        "partnership": "145(98)",
        "recentballs": "Data Not Found",
        "lastwicket": "... 0 0 4 1 | 0 4 1 1 0 1 | 1 0",
        "runrate": "CRR: 8.88",
        "commentary": [
            "16.2 Coulter-Nile to W Saha, no run, 139.1kph, ",
            "16.1 Coulter-Nile to Warner, 1 run, 124.4kph, length, nipping in off the pitch onto middle. Warner makes room and slaps it to deep point ",
            "15.5 Pattinson to Warner, no run, 139.7kph, backs away, cuts, but ends up miscuing it back down the pitch ",
            "15.4 Pattinson to W Saha, 1 run, swivels, one-legged, pulling it to the man in the deep behind square ",
            "15.3 Pattinson to Warner, 1 run, 118.2kph, back of a length, taking pace off, keeping it outside off for Warner to have to reach out. And he does connect this time, to guide it to third man ",
            "15.1 Pattinson to Warner, no run, 134.5kph, full, outside off, quick, just inside the tramline. Warner stretches, but can't quite connect ",
            "14.6 Coulter-Nile to Warner, 1 run, 130.6kph, length, nips back in, and Warner jumps away at the last moment with an opened bat face to steer it through point ",
            "14.4 Coulter-Nile to Warner, no run, skids through as it seams back in sharply to go under Warner's crouched swat, thudding off his thighs towards backward point ",
            "14.3 Coulter-Nile to Warner, no run, 136.4kph, serious bouncer, climbing back in. Nope, it's the circumstances that determines its ferocity, and with an 18 runs | 33 balls equation, this is gently left alone ",
            "14.2 Coulter-Nile to W Saha, 1 run, 136.9kph, full, on middle with the angle-in. Saha goes wristy, through mid-wicket ",
            "14.1 Coulter-Nile to W Saha, no run, 117kph, in-cutter into the tummy. Saha gets cramped in what looked like an initial attempt to cut, and so drops his wrists, opens his bat face and runs out to short third man ",
            "13.6 D Kulkarni to Warner, 2 runs, 105.4kph, and very comfortable. Around the fourth-stump, which Warner lines up to and punches through point ",
            "13.5 D Kulkarni to W Saha, 1 run, 127.6kph, full, on off, quiet flick, long-on "
        ],
        "teamone": "Data Not Found",
        "teamtwo": "Data Not Found",
        "update": "Sunrisers Hyderabad need 5 runs in 22 balls"
    }
}

Code Examples ☕

WordPress

## API Auth and Get data
function display_api_response() {
  $base_url = 'https://YOUR-API-Domain.com/cri.php?url=';
  $score_path = 'https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/30524/53rd-match-indian-premier-league-2020';
  $url = $base_url.$score_path;
  $response = wp_remote_get($url);
  global $body;
  $body = json_decode( $response['body'], true );
}
add_action( 'init', 'display_api_response' );

Replace YOUR-API-Domain with your actual API Domain

Fetch API (Javascript)

var url = 'https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/30524/53rd-match-indian-premier-league-2020';

async function fetchscore() {
    try {
        const response = await fetch('https://api.example.com/cri.php?url=' + url);
        const data = await response.json();
        console.log(data);
    } catch (exception) {
        console.log('Connection issue');
    }
}
fetchscore();

Free Deploy 😍

Deploy on Heroku

Deploy on Vercel

How Deploy Works? - https://github.com/mskian/cri-deploy

Development 🍩

git clone https://github.com/mskian/cricket-api.git
cd cricket-api
cd cri
php -S localhost:3001

Contributing 🙌

Your PR's are Welcome

Disclaimer 🗃

This is not an Offical API from Cricbuzz - it's an Unofficial API
This is for Education Purpose only - use at your own risk on Production Site

All Credits Goes to https://www.cricbuzz.com/

My other Projects 🤓

#	Project Name	Description
01	Live Cricket Score Static Site	A Simple Scrape Method - Fetch the Live Cricket Score from `espncricinfo.com` using Nodejs and Cheerio.js
02	IPL Special	Cricket API for Get the Live IPL Cricket Score
03	Live IPL Score Update on Telegram	Get Live IPL cricket Score on Telegram
04	Live Cricket Score Wordpress Plugin (JS Version)	Get Live Cricket Score on Wordpress site call API using Javascript Fetch API
05	Live Cricket Score Wordpress Plugin (Wp Remote URL)	Get Live Cricket Score on Wordpress site call API using Wordpress HTTP Remote URL
06	PWA Web App	Real-time Live Cricket Score Web app + PWA Built using Nuxt.js
07	Cricket API Nodejs	JSON API Node.js Version
08	Cricket Score Widget	Live Cricket Score Javascript Widget Build using Svelte JS

LICENSE 📕

MIT

Comments

This site cannot be reached

I was running php server in the localhost and entered the URL in the browser. But the site cannot be reached.

I am using php -S localhost:6001 to run the server and entered the URL: http://localhost:6001/cri.php?url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/live-cricket-scores/38337/1st-odi-south-africa-tour-of-england-2022.

But I was getting the following error in the terminal

opened by sumanth2002629 2

data does not fetching

http://localhost/cricket-api/cri/cri.php?url=www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-match/live-scores

{
  "success": true,
  "livescore": {
    "title": "India tour of England, 2021",
    "current": "Data Not Found",
    "batsman": "Data Not Found",
    "batsmanrun": "Data Not Found",
    "ballsfaced": "Data Not Found",
    "fours": "Data Not Found",
    "sixes": "Data Not Found",
    "bowler": "Data Not Found",
    "bowlerover": "Data Not Found",
    "bowlerruns": "Data Not Found",
    "bowlewickets": "Data Not Found",
    "partnership": "Data Not Found",
    "recentballs": "Data Not Found",
    "lastwicket": "Data Not Found",
    "runrate": "Data Not Found",
    "commentary": "Data Not Found",
    "teamone": "Data Not Found",
    "teamtwo": "Data Not Found",
    "update": "Data Not Found"
  }
}

question

opened by MuneebKhan1764 1

Errors related to partnership, recent balls and last wicket vars.

Sometimes the partnership shows last wicket data. When this happens recent balls show "Data Not Found" and recent balls data is shown by lastwicket var.
bug

opened by sudhanshuprasad2002 2
Error in mixing second batsman and second bowler

Please refer to the images given below. Here when the 2nd batsman is not displayed on the site. The 2nd bowler stats is mixed with the 2nd batsman of the current playing team.

Please also add the opponent team score also.

bug

opened by sudhanshuprasad2002 5
Please add the following things

Add Bowler's "M" "Economy" and also for fetching data of previous bowlers data as well. Also add 2nd Batsman stats and "SR" for batsman. please add these things
enhancement

opened by sudhanshuprasad2002 4