GET Countries by Search

Returns country information that match your search query.

Base URL

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

Example Response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 462,
    "continent_id": 1,
    "name": "United Kingdom",
    "official_name": "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
    "fifa_name": "ENG,NIR,SCO,WAL",
    "iso2": "GB",
    "iso3": "GBR",
    "latitude": "54.56088638305664",
    "longitude": "-2.2125117778778076",
    "geonameid": 2635167,
    "borders": [
      "IRL"
    ],
    "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images//countries/png/short/gb.png"
  },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the id of the country	integer
continent_id	Refers to the continent of the country	integer
name	Displays the name of the country	string
official_name	Displays the officiel name of the country	string
fifa_name	Displays the official fifa shortcode name of the country	string
iso2	Returns the two letter country code	string
iso3	Returns the three letter country code	string
latitude	Returns the official latitude position of the country	string
longitude	Returns the official longitude position of the country	string
geonameid	Returns the official geonameid	integer
border	Returns all the neighbour countries of the country	string
image_path	Returns the image path of the country	string

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 countries and more based on regions.	&include=regions&filters=regionCountries:regionIDS
leagues	Check this endpoint for all possibilities.	Filter countries and more based on leagues.	&include=leagues&filters=leagueCountries:leagueIDS

Pagination

Yes

Include depth

You can use a total of 2 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

continent leagues regions

Related Entities:

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

• Country

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/core/countries/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/countries/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/countries/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/countries/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/countries/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/countries/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))
}