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To give some context, I have been working on a plain text cricket score site1 that loads fast and scores can be viewed instantly even from a terminal.

The problem I faced was getting reliable data. I tried with the ESPN endpoints and RSS feed, but they have limits in place and cannot be fetched every minute.

Currently I'm using Cricketdata.org2 API which costs me $12 a month. I'm okay with paying that but the API is not reliable and the support is very poor! For instance today, they swapped the team 1 and 2 in their API results!

So my question is how do folks like ESPN or Cricbuzz get data? Do they have people sitting and watching live broadcast and entering stuff on a form or something?

If you have worked on something similar, would love to hear your thoughts and may share some resources which I can refer to!

[1] https://criclite.com [2] https://cricketdata.org/