The analysis ready claim oversells it, stuff like the percentages and that weirdly named rating_title column are plain strings so you're doing type cleanup in Pandas first.
Fotmob's terms basically ban scraping and bulk retrieval and both worldfootballR and soccerdata already dropped their free scrapers after takedown requests, so this risk is real not hypothetical. Under apify's standard actor contract, sections 2.1 and 2.2 put rights clearance on you, and Fotmob could just complain to apify or block their IP range, no code fix saves you from that.
I'd archive data locally, keep a licensed API as backup and pull through apps script instead of dropping your token into an IMPORTDATA cell where anyone with view access can read it. Calling it maintenance free is marketing until they commit to an uptime and update policy, what happens when the signature scheme rotates
The analysis ready claim oversells it, stuff like the percentages and that weirdly named rating_title column are plain strings so you're doing type cleanup in Pandas first.
Fotmob's terms basically ban scraping and bulk retrieval and both worldfootballR and soccerdata already dropped their free scrapers after takedown requests, so this risk is real not hypothetical. Under apify's standard actor contract, sections 2.1 and 2.2 put rights clearance on you, and Fotmob could just complain to apify or block their IP range, no code fix saves you from that.
I'd archive data locally, keep a licensed API as backup and pull through apps script instead of dropping your token into an IMPORTDATA cell where anyone with view access can read it. Calling it maintenance free is marketing until they commit to an uptime and update policy, what happens when the signature scheme rotates