Topscorer standings
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You are going to need the following tools:
Sportmonks' API token
Code editor (Visual studio used in examples)
Postman (optional)
You can find a link to another article where we discuss the tools in-depth on our
What league and specifically what season interests you? For this guide, we’ll go with the 20/21 season of the Scottish Premiership (league id: 501, season id: 17141).
Requesting top scorers can be done with the endpoint:
However, we will slightly modify the request because we want the player and team names and not just their player id. We can do this for all three top scorers, which are:
Goalscorers → players who have scored a goal
Assistscorers → players who gave assists
Cardscorers → players who have received yellow or red cards
We then plug the nested includesgoalscorers.playerandgoalscorers.teamto the request. So we could for example request everything:
It’s up to you how much data you want to receive. For our example, we are only interested in the goal-scoring top scorers. So we’ll use this URL:
We can see that the Scottish Premiership’s top scorer is Kevin Nisbet from Hibernian with six goals including one penalty goal.
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