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Creating an Arbitrage Alert System from scratch using Python and Supabase. Day 1 : Introduction
Hello everyone!
Today is the first article of creating an Arbitrage Alert System from scratch using Python and Supabase, that will alert a user of arbitrage opportunities within Football In-Play matches.
The plan is to provide updates each day in a similar medium article format, on this process with the code I am writing, thoughts and examples on project structure and infrastructure.
The intention is to provide a real-time example of a scraping project from its inception to fruition and from my perspective, to involve the help of your expertise in this process.
If you are interested, I have created a discord server to build a community of like minded people surrounding Web Scraping, Sports Data Analysis and much more, which you can join using the link below. I am no discord pro, so the server is currently quite rudimentary.
In this article we will focus on the background of this project so we are all on the same page when it comes to the overall structure.
In theory to create such an alert system we need to first scrape multiple betting sites to make the alerts. The more sites we scrape and include the…