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JSON vs XML for Sports APIs

Why JSON won for sports data APIs and when XML still appears.

JSON advantages

Smaller payloads, native parsing in JavaScript and mobile, human-readable, maps directly to object models. Every modern cricket API uses JSON.

Older sports feeds used XML. If you encounter XML cricket feeds, transform to JSON at ingestion. See Cricket XML API for context.

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