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The Odds API

Pulls live sports betting lines and scores from global bookmakers to power betting alerts, odds comparison tables, and automated bankroll tracking.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native The Odds API integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right The Odds API calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your The Odds API data, across all 8 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke The Odds API access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in The Odds API, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when The Odds API is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach The Odds API.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every The Odds API action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on The Odds API, and when to use it.

Get Event Odds
Use this to retrieve specific odds for a single event after you have the event id and sport key.
Get Events
Pull a list of live and upcoming events for a specific sport to identify available betting markets.
Get Odds
Fetch live odds for a sport filtered by region and market to find the best available prices.
Get Participants
Retrieve the list of teams or players for a specific sport key to build custom tracking lists.
Get Scores
Pull live and recently completed scores for a sport to settle bets or update leaderboards.
Get Sports
List all in season sports or set the all flag to true to see every available sport key.
Filter by Region
Narrow down odds requests to specific geographic bookmakers like us or uk for localized value.
Filter by Market
Request specific betting types such as h2h or spreads to clean up the data feed.
Check Sport Availability
Verify if a specific sport is currently active before triggering a wider odds pull.
Fetch Player Lists
Get all participants in a league to map them to internal customer preference profiles.
Monitor Live Scores
Poll for the most recent game results to trigger payout workflows in your system.
Retrieve Bookmaker List
Pull the list of active bookmakers providing data for a specific sport and region.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven optimizes calls to minimize quota consumption. The Odds API uses a request based quota system where every call subtracts from your monthly limit. To prevent waste, the agent caches common requests like sport lists and participant names for short periods. If you have a high frequency workflow, we recommend the agent uses a polling interval that matches your specific plan tier. If the quota is exhausted, the agent will notify you immediately via the workflow error log rather than silently failing, allowing you to upgrade your plan or adjust the polling frequency to ensure your betting alerts continue to fire without interruption.
Yes. While the default view shows in season sports, the agent can call the Get Sports action with the all parameter set to true. This allows you to pull data for sports that are not currently playing. Keep in mind that bookmakers may not provide active odds for these sports until closer to the season start date. The agent can be programmed to check these out of season keys once a day and send you a notification the moment the first lines are posted for the upcoming year, giving you a head start on early season value betting.
The Odds API covers major global regions including the us, uk, eu, and au. When the agent makes a request, it specifies the region to ensure you see bookmakers that are actually available to you. For example, if you are targeting the US market, the agent filters for US bookmakers to avoid seeing lines from European sites that do not accept US deposits. You can configure your Ceven workflow to pull from multiple regions simultaneously to perform cross border arbitrage analysis and find the widest spreads across the globe.
The data is as fresh as the API response. The Odds API provides real time updates, but the actual frequency depends on how you configure your Ceven agent. You can set a workflow to poll every minute or every hour. Because sports betting markets move fast, we suggest using short intervals for live games and longer intervals for upcoming events. The agent handles the request and parsing in milliseconds, meaning the only latency is the network hop to the API and the bookmaker update speed itself.
No. The Odds API is a data provider and does not have write access to bookmaker accounts. It provides the information needed to make a decision, but it cannot execute the trade. Ceven can pull the odds, calculate the value, and send you a notification or a direct link to the betting site. To complete the bet, a human must still log in to the bookmaker and place the wager. This ensures that you maintain full control over your funds and betting limits.
The agent pulls the most current state available at the moment of the request. If a line moves between the time the agent identifies the value and the time you see the alert, the alert will reflect the data from the last pull. To mitigate this, you can set the agent to perform a double check call immediately before sending the final notification. This ensures the price is still live and has not been taken down or shifted by the bookmaker, reducing the number of dead links in your alerts.
Support for player props depends on the specific sport and the bookmakers providing data for that market. The agent can request various market types, including head to head, spreads, and totals. While game winners are the most consistent, the agent can query for available markets to see if prop data is being streamed for a particular event. If the prop data is available in the API response, Ceven can parse those specific lines and include them in your custom reports or notifications.
The Odds API allows you to specify the odds format in the request. You can choose between decimal, american, or fractional. In Ceven, you define this preference in the action settings. The agent then ensures all data flowing through the workflow is normalized to your preferred format. This prevents calculation errors when the agent is comparing lines from different bookmakers who might natively use different formats, ensuring your value calculations are always based on a consistent numerical scale.

Alternatives to The Odds API

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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