Sky Bet odds API

Sky Bet API — UK football odds without scraping

Looking for a Sky Bet API? There isn’t a simple official odds API for building your own product — and scraping Sky Bet is a maintenance trap. UK Odds API gives you Sky Bet pre-match football odds as normalised REST JSON (UO022), alone or compared with the rest of the UK market.

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Sky Bet filter
bookmaker_codes=UO022

Use on /odds or /odds/best for Sky Bet only. Drop the filter to compare Sky Bet vs the full UK bookmaker set.

The search intent

Is there an official Sky Bet API?

Sky Bet does not offer a public developer API for shipping pre-match football odds into your own app, dashboard, or tipster product. There is no official Sky Bet odds feed you can just subscribe to and call like Stripe.

What people actually need

Fixtures, markets, and Sky Bet odds in JSON — often next to Bet365, Sky Bet, Paddy Power, and William Hill — for comparison tables, alerts, tipster tools, or internal dashboards.

What “official” usually means

Affiliate links or account-holder tooling, not a documented multi-tenant odds API you can embed in a SaaS without scraping.

The DIY trap

Why scraping Sky Bet fails in production

A Sky Bet scraper looks cheap on day one. In production it becomes a full-time job: DOM changes, bot challenges, IP blocks, and Terms of Service risk — before you even normalise markets against other UK bookmakers.

Technical breakage

Layouts and XHR payloads change without notice. Proxies, CAPTCHAs, and rate limits add cost and downtime.

Legal / ToS risk

Automated extraction is typically prohibited. For a commercial product, a managed feed is the cleaner path. See legal risks of scraping.

The simple path

Get Sky Bet odds via UK Odds API instead

UK Odds API is a UK-first REST API for pre-match football odds. Filter to Sky Bet with UO022, or drop the filter to compare across 34 UK bookmakers and exchanges in one schema — OpenAPI docs, stable codes, no HTML parsers.

Single book or full market

Most teams filter to Sky Bet for single-bookmaker dashboards and alerts, then remove the filter for best-odds tables. Pro includes 34 UK bookmakers plus advanced markets such as player props when you need depth beyond 1X2.

Built for Pro workloads

Most customers run on Pro (£149/mo, 7-day trial): 34 UK bookmakers, advanced markets including player props, historical odds. Start with a trial, then call the endpoints below.

How to integrate

Sky Bet odds — alone or vs the UK market.

Once you have an API key, the flow is the same for every UK bookmaker: list fixtures, request odds, optionally filter to Sky Bet.

1) Choose fixtures

List events for a date and select an event_id.

2) Query odds

Fetch odds and filter to Sky Bet via bookmaker_codes=UO022.

Endpoints

Copy‑paste these requests.

GET /v1/football/events?schedule_date=YYYY-MM-DD&has_odds=true&upcoming=true&per_page=10

GET /v1/football/events/EVENT_ID/odds/best?odds_format=decimal&bookmaker_codes=UO022

Replace EVENT_ID with an event_id returned by the events endpoint.

Sample JSON

A compact example response (shape is normalised across bookmakers).

{
  "event_id": "evt_123",
  "odds_format": "decimal",
  "bookmakers": [
    { "code": "UO022", "name": "Sky Bet" }
  ],
  "markets": [
    {
      "key": "1x2",
      "outcomes": [
        { "name": "Home", "odds": 2.05, "bookmaker_code": "UO022" },
        { "name": "Draw", "odds": 3.40, "bookmaker_code": "UO022" },
        { "name": "Away", "odds": 3.75, "bookmaker_code": "UO022" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Realtime data

#1 odds API for the UK market.

Build faster with accurate, developer-friendly UK Odds API.

Bookmakers covered

UK-first coverage across major UK bookmakers and exchanges.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

A focused API built for one job: UK football odds, from every bookmaker, in one clean format.

Starter

£49/month

Billed today · no trial

For prototypes and early builds

  • 10 UK bookmakers
  • Core markets only Main match odds such as match winner, over/under, both teams to score, double chance, draw no bet, and handicaps.
  • 1,000 requests/hour
  • Email support
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Pro

£149/month

7 days free · £0 due today

For production apps and dashboards

  • 34 UK bookmakers
  • Core markets Main match odds such as match winner, over/under, both teams to score, double chance, draw no bet, and handicaps.
  • Advanced markets Deeper betting markets such as corners, cards, team props, player props, specials, and bookmaker-specific markets.
  • 5,000 requests/hour
  • Historical odds
  • Price boosts Promotional boosted odds on selected markets and outcomes — e.g. enhanced player props and match combos. Single-event and batch endpoints available.
  • Bet builders Bookmaker-published multi-leg bets for one match — e.g. BTTS + corners + cards.
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Business

£359/month

Billed today · no trial

For arbitrage tools and revenue-generating systems

  • 34 UK bookmakers
  • Core markets Main match odds such as match winner, over/under, both teams to score, double chance, draw no bet, and handicaps.
  • Advanced markets Deeper betting markets such as corners, cards, team props, player props, specials, and bookmaker-specific markets.
  • 20,000 requests/hour
  • Arbitrage API included
  • Specials Football specials: markets on topics like next manager, transfers, and awards.
  • Historical odds
  • Price boosts Promotional boosted odds on selected markets and outcomes — e.g. enhanced player props and match combos. Single-event and batch endpoints available.
  • Bet builders Bookmaker-published multi-leg bets for one match — e.g. BTTS + corners + cards.
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FAQ

Still got questions?

Is there an official Sky Bet API?

Sky Bet does not publish a public developer API for pulling pre-match football odds into your own product. Teams usually either scrape the website (fragile and against typical Terms of Service) or use a bookmaker odds API such as UK Odds API.

Can I scrape Sky Bet odds instead?

You can try, but scrapers break when the site changes, hit anti-bot controls, and usually violate Terms of Service. For production apps, a managed odds API is simpler and lower risk than maintaining a Sky Bet HTML parser.

How do I get Sky Bet odds via UK Odds API?

Call fixtures with /v1/football/events, then odds with bookmaker_codes=UO022. Remove the filter to compare Sky Bet against the wider UK market.

What is UK Odds API?

UK Odds API is a UK-first REST API for pre-match football odds across major UK bookmakers and exchanges — one OpenAPI contract, stable UO### codes, best-odds helpers, and advanced markets (including player props) on Pro.

Which plan do I need?

Most production apps use Pro (£149/month, 7-day free trial): 34 UK bookmakers, core + advanced markets, historical odds. Arbitrage endpoints are on Business.

Can I try before I pay?

Yes. Start a 7-day Pro trial at ukoddsapi.com/sign-up, then try endpoints in the OpenAPI playground at api.ukoddsapi.com/docs.

What you can build

Real examples.
Copy‑paste code.

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