The World Cup is here and getting clean, structured match data is surprisingly painful. The official FIFA site has no public API. Third-party services either cost money, require OAuth, or return inconsistently shaped JSON that changes mid-tournament. I spent a few hours building a free Apify actor that wraps the football-data.org v4 API and outputs clean, normalized JSON — ready to drop into a dashboard, a Discord bot, or an automated betting tool. Here's how it works and how to use it. What it