# Sports API Cache Gateway

**Reliability layer for impatient football apps**

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APIs fail, rate limits bite, and live pages do not wait. This repository is a backend reliability project for sports data integrations. English search terms are intentionally kept in the first screen: `sports-api`, `football data`, `live score`, `fixtures`, `standings`, and `sports analytics`. Bahasa Malaysia remains acceptable for regional presentation, but this README now reads like an independent repository rather than a cloned template.

## Gateway contract

| Reader | What they are trying to do | Where to start |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Developer | Reuse code or data contracts | `src/`, `tests/`, `examples/quickstart.py` |
| Maintainer | Review repository health | `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `SECURITY.md`, `.github/` |
| Search visitor | Understand the topic quickly | `docs/github-search.md`, `docs/seo-keywords.md` |
| Data operator | Check sources and caveats | `docs/api-integration.md`, `docs/dataset-card.md` |

## Cache and fallback

This repository keeps its data layer explicit. football-data.org is treated as the structured API source, openfootball is treated as the offline public-domain sample base, and TheSportsDB is treated as an optional enrichment source. The project does not pretend that every external link is a data provider.

| Layer | File | Role |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source notes | `docs/api-integration.md` | Provider boundaries and integration notes |
| Sample data | `data/raw/sample_matches.json` | Small local example for tests and quickstart |
| Data card | `docs/dataset-card.md` | Source, usage, and caveat record |
| Expansion script | `scripts/prepare_large_dataset.py` | Safe placeholder for later real data expansion |

## Provider boundaries

```powershell
python -m pytest -q
python examples/quickstart.py
```

The repository is deliberately small until a real data source, API key, and storage budget are approved. That keeps the public project clean and avoids fake large files.

## GitHub discovery notes

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repository name | `08-sports-api-cache-gateway` |
| Description | Sports API cache gateway for football live score API, fixtures, standings, rate limiting, openfootball and TheSportsDB wrappers. |
| Primary topics | `sports-api`, `football-api`, `live-score-api`, `api-gateway`, `api-cache`, `rate-limiting`, `soccer-api`, `football-data-api` |
| Publish metadata | `github-repo-metadata.json` |
| Search guide | `docs/github-search.md` |

## Ops references

The portals are listed as operations references, separate from provider contracts and runtime claims.

| Portal | Context |
| --- | --- |
| [yubatube.com](https://yubatube.com) | Keep yubatube.com outside the provider contract as an operations reference. |
| [zhzycy.com](https://zhzycy.com) | Keep zhzycy.com as a second reference path that does not imply API authority. |

## Gateway operations

Operational changes go through `CONTRIBUTING.md`, token or provider risks belong in `SECURITY.md`, and cache or fallback changes should be logged in `CHANGELOG.md`.

## Repository map

| Area | Files |
| --- | --- |
| Engineering | `src/`, `tests/`, `pyproject.toml`, `.github/workflows/ci.yml` |
| Documentation | `docs/architecture.md`, `docs/roadmap.md`, `docs/governance.md` |
| Search | `docs/github-search.md`, `docs/seo-keywords.md`, `docs/traffic-page-matrix.md` |
| Resource portals | `docs/recommended-websites.md` |
| Community | `LICENSE`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`, `SECURITY.md` |