GET Cities by Search

Returns cities information that matches your search query.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}

Example Response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 53253,
    "country_id": 32,
    "region_id": 428,
    "name": "Madrid",
    "latitude": "21.9",
    "longitude": "-78.0833333",
    "geonameid": 3117735
  },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the id of the city	integer
country_id	Refers to the country of the city	integer
region	Refers to the region of the city	integer
name	Displays the name of the city	string
latitude	The official latitude of the city	string
longitude	The official lonitude of the city	string
geonameid	The official geo name id of the city	integer

Query Parameters

Query Parameters	Required?	Description
api_token	YES	Your unique API token
include	NO	Enrich the API with more data by using includes
select	NO	Select specific fields on the base entity
filters	NO	Filter the API response on multiple related entities. There are static filters and dynamic filters. Please find the possibilities in the Static and Dynamic Filter tab.

Static Filters

Not applicable for this endpoint.

Dynamic Filters

The dynamic filters are based on entities and includes. Each dynamic filter uses an entity to filter on and one entity to apply the filter on. Below are examples with explanations of how filters are set up. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

Dynamic Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Examples
regions	Coaches, Leagues, Players, Teams, and way more. Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter regions and more based on cities.	&include=regions&filters=regionCities:regionIDS

Pagination

Yes

Include depth

You can use a total of 4 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

region

Related Entities:

Get an overview and explanation of all the fields returned in the API response. The related entities for the cities' endpoints are:

• City

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Python

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.sportmonks.com")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $respons

Java

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}")
  .method("GET", null)
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Node.js

var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('GET', 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}')
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });

Go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "net/http"
  "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/cities/search/{search_query}?api_token={your_token}"
  method := "GET"

  client := &http.Client {
  }
  req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  res, err := client.Do(req)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  defer res.Body.Close()

  body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
  if err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
    return
  }
  fmt.Println(string(body))
}