footty – command-line tool for querying football.db

footty is a command-line tool for querying football.db, an open football database covering national and international football leagues and cups.

It lets users check fixtures and results from the terminal, including today’s matches, tomorrow’s matches, yesterday’s results, upcoming fixtures, and past matches. The tool supports league codes for major competitions and also includes World Cup and European Championship data, making it useful for following tournament schedules without using a web browser.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Shows today’s football matches from the command line.
• Supports tomorrow, yesterday, upcoming, and past match queries.
• Uses football.db over HTTP to retrieve fixture and result information.
• Includes league codes for competitions such as Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, World Cup, and European Championship.
• Installs as a Ruby gem and runs from a standard terminal.

Website: github.com/sportdb/footty
Support:
Developer: Gerald Bauer
License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

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