GET All Livescores

Returns the fixtures 15 minutes before the game starts. It will also disappear 15 minutes after the game is finished.

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores

Example Response

{
    "data": {
        "id": 19146701,
        "sport_id": 1,
        "league_id": 501,
        "season_id": 23690,
        "stage_id": 77471570,
        "group_id": null,
        "aggregate_id": null,
        "round_id": 340573,
        "state_id": 5,
        "venue_id": 8909,
        "name": "Celtic vs Kilmarnock",
        "starting_at": "2024-08-04 15:30:00",
        "result_info": "Celtic won after full-time.",
        "leg": "1/1",
        "details": null,
        "length": 90,
        "placeholder": false,
        "has_odds": true,
        "has_premium_odds": true,
        "starting_at_timestamp": 1722785400
    },

Field Description

Query Parameters

Static Filters

Static filters are always the same and filter in one specific way without any custom options. Each static filter is listed below and has a description of how it filters. For more information, please look at our Filters page.

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.

Using an include? Check their respective filters on their entity page. For example if you use &include=participants you can apply team-related filters.

Filters

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/my/filters/entity?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Pagination

NO

Include depth

You can use a total of 3 nested includes on this endpoint

Include options

Related Entities:

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

• Fixture

Postman

We also offer detailed postman documentation with examples and a complete up-to-date version of all our endpoints. Below is a button that lets your fork the collection or import it.

Code Example

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/livescores?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/football/livescores?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/football/livescores?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/football/livescores?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/football/livescores?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/football/livescores?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))
}