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TheSportsDB

Teams, players and badges across sports

🩺 Health & FoodDYINGchecked 12h ago
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Crowd-sourced sports database with key-in-URL JSON. Public test key `3` is embedded in their examples.

64HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 64 · dying
Uptime history
48.3%90 days
48.3%30 days
153P50 · ms
839P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 18 ms, slowest 457 ms, most recent 57 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v1/json/3/searchteams.php?t=Arsenal

{
  "teams": [
    {
      "idTeam": "133604",
      "idESPN": "359",
      "idAPIfootball": "42",
      "intLoved": "10",
      "strTeam": "Arsenal",
      "strTeamAlternate": "Arsenal Football Club, AFC, Arsenal FC",
      "strTeamShort": "ARS",
      "intFormedYear": "1892"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v1/json/3/searchteams.php?t=Arsenal"
const res = await fetch("https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v1/json/3/searchteams.php?t=Arsenal");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v1/json/3/searchteams.php?t=Arsenal")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 3DyingFULL DOCS ↗
Dying — error rate climbing on GET /searchteams.php?t=Arsenal153 mschecked 12h ago
GET/searchteams.php?t=ArsenalPROBED

Teams, players and badges across sports

GET/searchteams.php?limit=5

Searchteams Php — documented GET route.

GET/searchteams.php?page=1

Searchteams Php — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

TheSportsDB: common questions

Is TheSportsDB free to use?

Yes — TheSportsDB is a free health & food API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does TheSportsDB need an API key?

No — TheSportsDB needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Retry-After: 92s).

Can I call TheSportsDB from the browser?

Not directly — TheSportsDB doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is TheSportsDB up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, TheSportsDB is dying with 48.3% uptime over 90 days and a 153 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.