API-Football

Introduction

Football is loved by many people so there are many apps and tools. The Api-Football is no exception.

Web-API?

What's an Web-API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. A Web API is an application programming interface for the Web . A Browser API can extend the functionality of a web browser. A Server API can extend the functionality of a web server.
A server-side web API consists of one or more publicly exposed endpoints to a defined request–response message system, typically expressed in JSON or XML by means of an HTTP-based web server.
A server API (SAPI) is not considered a server-side web API, unless it is publicly accessible by a remote web application.

REST

Web 2.0 Web APIs often use machine-based interactions such as REST and SOAP. RESTful web APIs use HTTP methods to access resources via URL-encoded parameters, and use JSON or XML to transmit data.
By contrast, SOAP protocols are standardized by the W3C and mandate the use of XML as the payload format, typically over HTTP.
Furthermore, SOAP-based Web APIs use XML validation to ensure structural message integrity, by leveraging the XML schemas provisioned with WSDL documents.
A WSDL document accurately defines the XML messages and transport bindings of a Web service.
The API-Football is a REST Api.

Postman

Access to the API can be written in many languages (See the docu of API-Football).
One of the easiest ways to test the REST WebApi is Postman .

Widgets

The widgets are free to use, but every request counts for your chosen usage plan.
An example blog How to custom api football explains how to do so.