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TheSportsDB

Teams, players and badges across sports

🩺 Health & FoodUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Crowd-sourced sports database with key-in-URL JSON. Public test key `3` is embedded in their examples.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
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())
Endpoints · 3On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /searchteams.php?t=Arsenal awaits first probe
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

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call TheSportsDB from the browser?

Yes — TheSportsDB returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is TheSportsDB up right now?

TheSportsDB is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.