GET Stages by Search by Name

Returns all stages that matches your search query

Base URL

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/football/stages/search/{searchQuery}

Example Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1086,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "league_id": 271,
      "season_id": 1273,
      "type_id": 223,
      "name": "Regular Season",
      "sort_order": 1,
      "finished": true,
      "is_current": false,
      "starting_at": "2005-07-19",
      "ending_at": "2006-05-14",
      "games_in_current_week": false
    },
    {
      "id": 1087,
      "sport_id": 1,
      "league_id": 271,
      "season_id": 1274,
      "type_id": 223,
      "name": "Regular Season",
      "sort_order": 1,
      "finished": true,
      "is_current": false,
      "starting_at": "2006-07-19",
      "ending_at": "2007-05-27",
      "games_in_current_week": false
    },

Field Description

Field	Description	Type
id	Refers to the unique id of the stage	integer
sport_id	Refers to the sport of the stage	integer
league_id	Refers to the league related to the stage	integer
season_id	Refers to the season related to the stage	integer
type_id	Indicates what the stage type is	integer
name	Returns the name of the stage	string
sort_order	Returns the order of the stage	integer
finished	Indicates if the stage is finished or not	boolean
pending	Indicates if the stage is pending or not	boolean
is_current	Indicates if the stage is the current stage or not	boolean
starting_at	The starting date of the stage	string
ending_at	The end date of the stage	string

Query Parameters

Name	Required?	Description
api_token	YES Another option is to provide the API token in the header.	Your unique API token. Ex. ?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN
include	NO	Enrich the API response with more data by using includes. Ex. &include=participants;events
select	NO
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.
locale	NO

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.

Static Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Example
N/A	N/A	Not available for this endpoint.	N/A

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=fixtures, you can apply fixture-related filters.

Dynamic Filters	Available on Entity	Description	Examples
Types		Filter the stages on a selection of type IDs separated by a comma.	&include=type&filters=stageTypes:typeIDS &include=type&filters=stageTypes:223
ParticipantSearch		Filter the fixtures of certain participants	&include=fixtures&filters=ParticipantSearch:search_query &include=fixtures&filters=ParticipantSearch:Celtic
Fixture statistics		Include the fixtures and only filter on the statistics you're interested in.	&include=fixtures&filters=fixturestatisticTypes:typeIDS &include=fixtures&filters=fixturestatisticTypes:84

Filters

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

Pagination

YES

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
order	No	Returns stages ordered by id (asc or desc). Defaults to asc	&order=desc
per_page	No	The amount of results to return per page (max 50.). Defaults to 25.	&per_page=30
page	No	You can paginate using the has_more parameter to determine if you can still propagate through the results.	&page=2

Include depth

You can use a total of 4 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 stages endpoints are:

• Stage

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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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/stages/search/{searchQuery}?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))
}