GET Driver by ID

This endpoint returns the requested driver by its ID.

https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/DRIVER_ID

{
    "data": {
        "id": 37920800,
        "sport_id": 2,
        "country_id": 38,
        "nationality_id": 38,
        "city_id": null,
        "position_id": 9730,
        "detailed_position_id": 9730,
        "type_id": null,
        "common_name": "M. Verstappen",
        "firstname": "Max",
        "lastname": "Verstappen",
        "name": "Max Verstappen",
        "display_name": "Max Verstappen",
        "image_path": "https://cdn.sportmonks.com/images/motorsport/players/0/37920800.png",
        "height": null,
        "weight": null,
        "date_of_birth": "1997-09-30",
        "gender": "male"
    },

Query Parameters

Required?

Description

api_token

YES

Your unique API token

include

Enrich the API with more data by using includes

select

Select specific fields on the base entity

filters

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.

Pagination

YES

Include depth

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

Include options

sport country city nationality teams latest position lineups metadata

Related Entities:

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

Driver

Code Example

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?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

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.sportmonks.com")
payload = ''
headers = {}
conn.request("GET", "/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?api_token={your_token}", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?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

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?api_token={your_token}")
  .method("GET", null)
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('GET', 'https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?api_token={your_token}')
  .end(function (res) { 
    if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error); 
    console.log(res.raw_body);
  });

package main

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

func main() {

  url := "https://api.sportmonks.com/v3/motorsport/drivers/37920802?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))
}

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