Show HN: World Cup bracket game with no back end – brackets live in the URL

Category: library

Tags: football-data, world-cup, json-api, open-data, sports

Score: 4.8/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 6, Utility: 6)

This project provides free, public domain football data for World Cups in JSON format, sourced from upstream text files and updated via GitHub Actions. It's interesting for its no-API-key-required approach and wiki-like contribution model, enabling developers to build bracket games or match viewers without backend infrastructure.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, sports app developers

Repository: https://golazo.giitaayan.com · CC0-1.0 · 317 stars

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