Highlighter is the sister site to Derbyist. It offers a simple, no-frills view of every match result and video highlight from the top five European leagues and major cup competitions. It also follows the World Cup and its qualifiers.

I built it because it’s a site I wanted to use—one place where you can catch up on the highlights that matter to you in just a few minutes. I’ve seen nothing else like it.

Once I had a data source for Derbyist, it was straightforward to make. A script ingests from TheSportsDB’s football API the teams, score, and video URL for all finished matches in the tracked competitions and puts them in a SQLite database. Another script then queries and displays the data on the site.

The home page shows the last year’s worth of matches from all competitions in reverse chronological order. You can click on any team or competition to narrow the view to just those. The site’s design is based on the design of Mostly Bitcoin, which I came up with a decade ago and aims to be informationally dense and inspired by a Bloomberg terminal.

Last updated October 19, 2025