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Quick StartFootball APIContactAPI 3.0
  • Welcome
  • Changelog
  • Getting Started
    • Get Started
    • Documentation for the documentation
  • Endpoint overview
    • Continents
      • GET All Continents
      • GET Continent by ID
    • Countries
      • GET All Countries
      • GET Country by ID
    • Leagues
      • GET All Leagues
      • GET League by ID
      • GET Leagues by Country ID
      • Search Leagues by Name
    • Seasons
      • GET All Seasons
      • GET Season by ID
    • Fixtures
      • GET Fixture by ID
      • GET Last Updated Fixtures
      • GET Fixtures by Date
      • GET Fixtures by Date Range
      • GET Fixtures by Date Range for Team
      • GET Fixtures by Multiple ID's
      • GET Deleted Fixtures
    • Statistics
    • Livescores
      • GET All Livescores
      • GET All In play Livescores
    • News API
      • GET All News
      • GET News For Upcoming Fixtures
      • GET News by Season ID
    • Commentaries
      • Commentaries by Fixture ID
    • Video Highlights
      • Get Video Highlights by Fixture ID
    • Head 2 Head
      • GET Head 2 Head by Team IDs
    • Standings
      • GET Standings by Season ID
      • GET LIVE Standings
      • GET Standings by Season ID and Round ID
      • GET Standings by Season and Date(time)
      • GET Standings Corrections by Season ID
    • Teams
      • GET Team by ID
      • GET Teams by Country ID
      • GET Teams by Season ID
      • Search Team by Name
      • GET Current Leagues by Team ID
      • Get All Leagues by Team ID
    • Players
      • GET Player by ID
      • GET Players by Country ID
      • Search Player by Name
    • Topscorers
      • GET Topscorers by Season ID
      • GET Topscorers Aggregated by Season ID
    • Rivals
      • GET Rivals by Team ID
    • Venues
      • GET Venue by ID
      • GET Venues by Season ID
    • Rounds
      • GET Rounds by Season ID
      • GET Round by ID
    • Odds
      • GET Odds by Fixture ID and Bookmaker ID
      • GET Odds by Fixture ID and Market ID
      • GET Odds by Fixture ID
      • GET Inplay Odds by Fixture ID
    • Coaches
      • GET Coach by ID
    • Stages
      • GET Stage by ID
      • GET Stages by Season ID
    • Bookmakers
      • GET All Bookmakers by Fixture ID
      • GET All Bookmakers
      • GET Bookmaker by ID
    • Markets
      • GET All Fixtures by Market ID
      • GET All Markets
      • GET Market by ID
    • Team Squads
      • GET Team Squad by Team and Season ID
    • TV Stations
      • GET TV Station by Fixture ID
    • Prediction API
      • GET Leagues and Performances
      • GET Probabilities
      • GET Probabilities by Fixture ID
      • GET Value Bets
      • GET Value Bet by Fixture ID
  • Tutorials
    • Introduction to our API
      • Make your first request
      • Set your time zone
      • Pagination
    • Enriching your response
      • Includes
      • Nested includes
    • Filtering, limiting & sorting
      • Filtering
      • Limiting
      • Sorting
    • Schedule, fixtures & livescores
      • Season schedule
      • Fixtures
      • Livescores
    • Statistics
      • Match statistics
      • Team statistics
      • Player statistics
      • Season statistics
    • League & topscorers standings
      • League standings
      • Topscorers standings
    • Odds & predictions
      • Odds
        • Odds by fixture, bookmaker and market id
        • FlatOdds
        • InplayOdds
      • Predictions
  • MySportmonks
    • How-to build a custom plan
    • ID Finder
  • How-to Guides
    • Get Started with our how-to guides
      • How-to build your API requests
    • Livescores & fixtures
      • How-to build a livescore website
      • How-to build a schedule page
    • Match & team pages
      • How-to build a match page with events and statistics
      • How-to build a match page with line-ups/formations
      • How-to build a team page with season stats and squads
    • How-to build standings and topscorer standings
      • League standings
      • Topscorer standings
    • Odds & predictions
      • How-to build a match page with odds
      • How-to build a betting odds portal
      • How-to use the predictions API
    • How-to build a fantasy game
    • Developer tools
      • How-to use Sportmonks' APIs in Postman
    • How-to keep your database in sync
    • World Cup 2022
    • EURO 2024
    • Football widgets
      • How-to set up football widgets in your web application
      • Configurations
      • Widgets overview
        • Livescore widget
        • International Cup widgets
  • API References
    • API reference guide
    • Data features
    • ID Finder
    • Code libraries
    • Demo response files
    • Statuses and definitions
    • API Rate limiting
    • Response codes
    • Meta description
  • General
  • Sportmonks
  • Plans & pricing
  • FAQ
  • Contact
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  • Step 1: Download the Sportmonks API collection
  • Step 2: Insert your API token into Postman
  • Step 3: Make your first request
  • Step 4: Check explanations and include
  • Step 5: Use filters
  • Step 6: Example response
  • Step 7: Save code
  • Step 8: Save request
  • Step 9: Choose code output

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How-to use Sportmonks' APIs in Postman

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Welcome to the how-to guide about using Postman for our APIs. In our various tutorials, how-to guides and getting started pages, we recommended you use Postman. This is because Postman has our entire library of endpoints. Everything has been set-up and is ready for you to use. It’s extremely simple. In this how-to guide, we’re going to show you how you can make API requests with Postman. We'll show you various GIFs for visual guidance besides text. You’re going to need the following:

  • Sportmonks API token

  • Postman account

Step 1: Download the Sportmonks API collection

Download the Sportmonks API collection. The following link is for the Football 2.0 API collection.

In, case you don’t have a Postman account. No worries, you can simply create a Postman account when you’re directed to that link.

Open the GIFs in a new tab, for the full resolution versions.

Step 2: Insert your API token into Postman

Click on ‘environmental quick look’, indicated with the eye icon. Next, you go to globals and edit. In the globals section, you name the variable ‘api_token’ and for the initial and current value you simply add your API token. Click on save and you’re good to go.

The API token will be added automatically to every request you make in the future, which is super convenient. Your requests will always be authenticated this way.

Step 3: Make your first request

Now to test whether you successfully added the API token or not, we’re going to make a request in Postman. Go to our Soccer API collection and choose an endpoint. For this guide, we’ve chosen the . For your convenience, we have already added an example team id for you. The example ids will always be of a team, season, or player that is available in our Free Plan. Other than that, you can freely add includes. Simply click on the include query parameter and then insert a value.

Hit the blue 'send button' and it will send your request!

Step 4: Check explanations and include

Step 5: Use filters

Simply check market and then add any value you would like at the value bar.

Step 6: Example response

Step 7: Save code

Step 8: Save request

Step 9: Choose code output

We’ve also made it possible for you to make API requests via a plethora of coding languages. Simply click on the ‘code’ button on the top right corner, directly down below ‘save’.

We offer extra information about the endpoint, which includes are available, how many nested includes you can use and whether the endpoint contains pagination or not. You can check out our for this info.

We include standard filter options. You can simply check a filter and then type what you want to filter on. For example, with the , you can filter on the parameter 'markets' and 'bookmakers'.

We also offer you example responses for every endpoint! Simply click on the examples tab located in the top right corner.

It can be handy to save the response, instead of having to continuously re-open Postman and making new requests. That’s why you can simply save and download your response!

You can also choose to save a specific request and have it added to your SportMonks API collection. In this example, I request the season id of the Champions League and then save it as such.

We hope the gifs are helpful in assisting you with navigating through our Postman collection. If you happen to have any questions, feel free to contact our

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