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TheSportsDB

Teams, players and badges across sports

🩺 Health & FoodHEALTHYchecked 11h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

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

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 67 · healthy
Uptime history
56.9%90 days
58.3%30 days
238P50 · ms
3182P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 20 ms, slowest 3182 ms, most recent 20 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())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /searchteams.php?t=Arsenal238 mschecked 11h 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?

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?

As of our last scheduled check, TheSportsDB is healthy with 56.9% uptime over 90 days and a 238 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.