Introduction

While several data providers can be used to source match and event data for websites and apps for most events, rights holders often want to provide similar information regarding events that are not covered by the major data providers, such as pre-season friendlies and under-21's matches.

For this reason, Cortex provides an Events facility to create your own dynamic pre-match, in-play and post-match real-time feeds to your fanbase, like this:

This document firstly provides an overview of the API constructs that will fetch the data used to generate a page of events like this one, then it shows the event creation process in the Cortex platform.

Events - API call constructs

Below are the API calls that may be used to fetch an event or events.

To fetch all events:

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GET {environment-id}/v2/public/clients/{clientId}/events

In which:

{environment-id} is the URL for stage (test) or production (live).

• Stage: https://events-stage.cortextech.io
• Production: https://events.cortextech.io
• Production (US environment): https://events.cortextech.us

{clientId} is your client ID, assigned during onboarding.

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GET https://events.cortextech.io/v2/public/clients/DEMO/events

To fetch an individual event, by ID:

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GET {environment-id}/v2/public/clients/{clientId}/events/{eventId}

In which:

{environment-id} and {clientId} are as described above.

{eventId} is the identifier for an individual event. This ID can be obtained from the API described above, or from the Cortex platform.

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GET https://events.cortextech.io/v2/public/clients/DEMO/events/655c9d9e96549de1ed8a1612