Hello,
The sportdb Ruby gem [1] that lets you read plain text football
(soccer) teams, fixtures, results and more in your SQL database of
choice now includes all teams, groups, rounds and matches for the
World Cup 2014 in Brazil [2].
Use the data in Ruby like:
worldcup = Event.find_by_key!( 'world.2014' )
pp worldcup.teams # pretty print all teams
pp worldcup.rounds # pretty print all rounds / matchdays
pp worldcup.groups # pretty print all groups
jpn = Team.find_by_key!( 'jpn' )
pp jpn.games
etc.
Or use the HTTP JSON API [3] with your own service or using the
online version e.g.
* event/world.2014/teams # fetch all teams
* event/world.2014/rounds # fetch all rounds / matchdays
* event/world.2014/round/1 # fetch matchday 1/round 1
All data, code and samples public domain.
Enjoy. Cheers.
[1] http://rubydoc.info/gems/sportdb
[2] https://github.com/openfootball/world-cup/blob/master/2014/cup.txt
[3] http://footballdb.herokuapp.com/api