DataSportsGroup API - Basketball

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v3 GET /basketball/get_competitions

Returns all competitions from an area.

Request URL

https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/basketball/get_competitions?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

area_id

int

area to get the subareas or specific area from

authkey

string Required

client authentification key

client

string Required

unique client ID

ftype

string

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

lang

string

two-character language code, defaults to 'en'

Nodes

area❯

details about area

area_id

unique identifier for an area

country_code

three character country code

iso_code

official three character ISO code (not all areas will have an ISO code)

name

name of the area

parent_area_id

unique identifier of the parent area (either continent or World)

competition❯

details about competition

area_id

unique identifier for an area

area_name

name of the area

competition_id

unique identifier for a competition

format

competition format (domestic_league, domestic_cup, domestic_league_cup, domestic_super_cup, international_cup, international_super_cup, playoff, tournament, race, unofficial)

gender

determines the gender of the competition (male or female)

last_updated

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

name

name of the competition

type

determines if a competition is between club teams (club) or national teams (international)

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

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}/basketball/get_competitions?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}/basketball/get_competitions?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}/basketball/get_competitions?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}/basketball/get_competitions?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}", auth=("User", "Password"))

Response Example

200 Success