ESPN hidden API Docs

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ESPN's hidden API endpoints

Football

College Football

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/news

Latest Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/scoreboard

• query params:

  • calendar: 'blacklist'
  • dates: any date in YYYYMMDD

Game Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/summary?event=:gameId

• params:

  • gameId: identifier of some game (EX: 400934572 for 2017 Army vs Navy)

Team Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/teams/:team

• params:

  • team: some team abbreviation (EX: 'all' for Allegheny, 'gt' for Georgia Tech, 'wisconsin' for Wisconsin)

Rankings: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/rankings

NFL

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/teams/:team

Baseball

MLB

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/teams/:team

College Baseball

Scores: https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/college-baseball/scoreboard

Hockey

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/teams/:team

Basketball

NBA

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/teams/:team

WNBA

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/teams/:team

Women's College Basketball

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/teams/:team

Men's College Basketball

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/teams/:team

Soccer

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/scoreboard

• params:

  • league: some league abbreviation (EX: 'eng.1' for EPL, 'usa.1' for MLS)

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/news

List of Team Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/teams

Will update with more information as I find more...

Does anyone know the league parameter name for NBA summer league?

@apelt001 @BataBoom It looks like they separate leagues out by region, for reference you can check all leagues here:
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/basketball/leagues

I am trying to load college basketball player data (GP, MIN, PTS, etc) from prior years (the same thing that you can see on the team stats pages for prior years, https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/team/stats/_/id/2294/season/2023). In the API team data I see only this season, and not really all of the player data I'm looking for and if I add a query for prior season it doesn't seem to chagne the data. Any idea how I can get prior year stats for players?

I know this is a little late but better late then ever. So i did something similar for mens colleage and created a loop to get whatever matups to a certain point

' current_year = date.today().year
year = current_year -1
matchup_data = []

while year >= 2024:  #You can do it to whatever year you would like here
    # Define season start and end dates for the given year
    start_date = date(year, 11, 4)  # Typically around early November
    end_date = date(year + 1, 3, 9)  # Typically around early March

    # Generate each day in the season date range
    current_date = start_date
    while current_date <= end_date:
        date_str = current_date.strftime("%Y%m%d")  # Format date as YYYYMMD

        url = f"https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard?dates={date_str}"
       #change to your url for women 
        try:
            response = requests.get(url)
            response.raise_for_status()
            data = response.json()
        except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
            print(f"Error fetching scoreboard data for {date_str}: {e}")
            current_date += timedelta(days=1)
            continue`

This worked for me as I was building my algo out for men so hopefully this helps you with your analytics.

Can someone tell me all the available leagues, this api doesn't seem to cover all of them: https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/scoreboard/activeSports?v=1&editionKey=espn-en&lang=en&region=us

Can someone tell me all the available leagues, this api doesn't seem to cover all of them: https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/scoreboard/activeSports?v=1&editionKey=espn-en&lang=en&region=us

@daniyalmaster693 You can view all sports on this endpoint:
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports

And then if you go a bit deeper, for each sport you can view leagues
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/basketball/leagues

Develop your website in a manner that it just consumes an object using the API data as middleware. Then when/if the ESPN API changes or fails, you just have to find a new source and your website continues. This is what I had to do with mine. NFL changed their API, or rather closed it down.

Hi @KevinDuganJr can you go into some detail on what you did. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm still very much a programming beginner.
Thanks

Develop your website in a manner that it just consumes an object using the API data as middleware. Then when/if the ESPN API changes or fails, you just have to find a new source and your website continues. This is what I had to do with mine. NFL changed their API, or rather closed it down.

Hi @KevinDuganJr can you go into some detail on what you did. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm still very much a programming beginner. Thanks

You create classes that your application will use. Let's say you're doing Schedule so you would have at least a Schedule class and Team class. Then you use the API to populate the properties of those classes. If you have an ongoing project, I could try to help guide you. I'm afraid I'm not good at wiring everything up in a chat window though haha.