DataSportsGroup API - American Football

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v3 GET /american_football/get_squad

Returns a list of players linked to a team.

Request URL

https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/american_football/get_squad?team={team_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}

API Threshold

10k calls per hour (2.78 calls per second)
This threshold applies to ALL your calls you do across the API.
Your number of calls get reset every hour at :00
If the thresold is reached within the hour you will get a xml/json message accordingly (which is gone when the next hour starts, see previous point)

Parameters

authkey

string Required

client authentification key

client

string Required

unique client ID

detailed

string Required

only 'yes' is valid, enables more details

ftype

string

changes feed type from XML to json (ftype=json or ftype=json_array)

lang

string

two-character language code, defaults to 'en'

picsize

string

one of 150x150, 50x50, 30x30 or 18x18 to get correct size of player picture.

team

int Required

team id to return

Nodes

datasportsgroup❯

details about the API version, sport, language and generation timestamp

generated_utc

UTC timestamp when the API output was generated

lang

language of the API call

sport

sport value

version

version of the API

method❯

details about the API function

method_id

unique ID of method

name

name of method

people❯

basic information about the squad member

age

current age of the person

common_name

common name of the person

country_of_birth

name of the country the person was born

country_of_birth_area_id

unique identifier for an area

date_of_death

death date of the person

first_name

first name of the person

gender

gender of the person ('male' or 'female')

height

height of person in centimeters

last_name

last name of the person

last_updated

When record was last updated. Format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in CET timezone.

membership_id

unique identifier for the membership

nationality

nationality of the person

nationality_area_id

unique identifier for an area

people_id

unique identifier for person

people_picture

full path URL of people headshot, size can be changed via the picsize parameter

place_of_birth

name of city the person was born

role

type of role ('player', 'coach' or 'assistant_coach', 'goalkeeper_coach', 'local_coach', 'scout', 'sporting director')

short_name

shortened name of the person

status

status of the player ('active', 'retired' or 'dead')

weight

weight of person in kilograms

people_extra❯

extra details about the person

position

position value

social_media❯

details about the social media channels

esea

ESEA Profile URL

esl_gaming

ESL Profile URL

facebook

facebook channel URL

faceit

Faceit Profile URL

instagram

instagram channel URL

reddit channel URL

steamid

steam ID channel URL

strava

strava Profile URL

tiktok

Tiktok Profile URL

twitch

Twitch channel URL

twitter

twitter channel URL

vk channel URL

website

official website address (URL)

youtube

youtube channel URL

team❯

details about a team

area_id

unique identifier for an area

area_name

name of the area

discipline_id

unique identifier of the discipline

discipline_name

name of the discipline

gender

gender of the team ('male', 'male youth', 'female' or 'female youth')

last_updated

When record was last updated. Format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in CET timezone.

short_name

shortened name of the person

status

the current status of the team ('active' or 'defunct')

team_id

unique identifier of the team

team_name

current team name

title

title of season

tla_name

three letter acronym for this team

type

determines the type of team ('national' or 'club' or 'selection')

Response Headers

200

Success

401

Unauthorized

429

Too Many Requests

Code Samples

PHP
Curl
Python
VB.NET

<?php$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/american_football/get_squad?team={team_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "{User}:{Password}");
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);?>

curl GET -u "User:Password" "https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/american_football/get_squad?team={team_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}"

Imports System
Imports System.Net	
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Text

Public Module Module1
	Public Sub Main()
		Dim url As String = "https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/american_football/get_squad?team={team_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}"
		Dim myReq As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(url)
		myReq.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("{User}", "{Password}")
		Dim wr As WebResponse = myReq.GetResponse()
		Dim receiveStream As Stream = wr.GetResponseStream()
		Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8)
		Dim content As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
	End Sub
End Module

response = requests.get("https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/american_football/get_squad?team={team_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}", auth=("User", "Password"))

Response Example

200 Success