HOW CUSTOM API-FOOTBALL WIDGETS

  • February 6, 2022
  • API SPORTS

The API-FOOTBALL has 4 widgets available : Livescore, Fixtures, Fixture and Standings, and for each of these widgets there are 3 themes available. But these themes may not fit your website or application at all.
The documentation concerning the implementation and the parameters of the widgets is available here.

As a reminder, here are the widgets' functionalities:
LIVESCORE : Display the list of curr...

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HOW TO GET STANDINGS FOR ALL CURRENT SEASONS

  • February 1, 2022
  • API SPORTS

We will see how to retrieve the standings of all the active competitions of the API.

To get the standings we need two parameters:
- the league id
- the season

We will assume that we do not know the league ids. So we need a way to get all the leagues ids and also the active season attached to this leagues because we want only the current season and not the past seasons.

One point to take into account is the coverage of each competition which can be d...

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IMPORT SPORTS DATA IN GOOGLE SHEETS WITH SYNCWITH

  • January 27, 2022
  • Chris Reid

If you’re looking for API addressable live scores, standings, events, line-ups, player stats, pre-match odds or statistics for a range of sports API-SPORTS has a suite of APIs that cover Football, Baseball, Basketball, Formula 1, Hockey, Rugby, Handball and Volleyball.

Each sport has its own set of documentation and api endpoint with slightly different functions available. Football for instance has a wide array of functions you can call, including: Leagues, Teams, Venues, Standings, Fixtures, Injuries, Predictions, Coaches, Players, Transfers, Trophies,...

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HOW TO GET ALL TEAMS AND PLAYERS FROM A LEAGUE ID

  • December 14, 2021
  • API SPORTS

In this tutorial we will see the most efficient way to get all the teams and players of a competition. We will do this in PHP but the logic applied can be done in any programming language.

To make the API calls you will need your API-KEY which can be found in the profile section of the dashboard. If you don't have one yet you can
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HOW TO SAVE CALLS TO THE API

  • October 27, 2020
  • API SPORTS

Here we will discuss the most economical ways to call the API in order to retrieve a maximum amount of information with a minimum number of calls and also avoid making unnecessary calls to the API that will return empty responses.

It is important to take into account to save calls to the API, that all competitions do not necessarily benefit from all the features of the API.

For this in the endpoint leagues, there is a coverage field that tells you wich features are covered for each league.
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HOW TO USE API-FOOTBALL WITH PYTHON

  • September 14, 2020
  • Jeff Vincent from rapidapi.com

API-Football provides amazing coverage of football (soccer) teams, players, matches, predicted match results and more! You can see a complete list of all the possible endpoints in this high-level diagram they offer as a means of finding your footing, so to speak.

ARCHITECTURE

As you can see above, there are two entry points for the logical flow of an average user’s case: Seasons and Countries. The RapidAPI interface provides easy access to t...

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IMPORT FOOTBALL DATA TO GOOGLE SHEETS

  • July 18, 2020
  • Ana from mixedanalytics.com

This guide will show you how to pull major and minor league football stats into Google Sheets, using the API Connector add-on for Sheets. Please note that this API is freemium, and requires a credit card to access, though you won’t need to pay anything unless you go over the limits.

Part 1: Subscribe to the API-Football API
Part 2: Create your API Request URL
Part 3: Pull API data into Sheets
Part 4: Notes and Expansions

PART 1: SUBSCRIBE TO THE API-FOOTBALL API ON RAPIDAPI

1 - If you haven’t already, c...

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