DataSportsGroup API - Bowls

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v3 GET /bowls/get_matches

Returns all matches of a particular tournament

Request URL

https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/bowls/get_matches?type=season&id={season_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

age

string

unique identifier for an age group

authkey

string Required

client authentification key

client

string Required

unique client ID

discipline_id

int

unique identifier for a discipline

ftype

string

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

gender

string

unique identifier for a gender (male,female)

int Required

object id to return

lang

string

two-character language code, defaults to 'en'

team_id

int

use a team_id as value to filter the matches accordingly

type

string Required

one of ‘season’, ‘round’ or ‘match’ to which the "id" refers

Nodes

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

match❯

details about the particular match

contestant_a1_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_a1_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_a1_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_a1_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_a1_nationality_area_code

area code of contestants nationality

contestant_a1_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_a1_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_a1_short_name

short name of the contestant

contestant_a2_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_a2_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_a2_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_a2_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_a2_nationality_area_code

area code of contestants nationality

contestant_a2_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_a2_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_a2_short_name

short name of the contestant

contestant_a_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_a_draw_position

darw position of the contestant

contestant_a_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_a_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_a_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_a_nationality_area_code

area code of contestant_a nationality

contestant_a_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_a_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_a_seeding

seeding of the contestant

contestant_a_short_name

short name of the contestant

contestant_b1_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_b1_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_b1_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_b1_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_b1_nationality_area_code

area code of contestants nationality

contestant_b1_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_b1_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_b1_short_name

short name of the contestant

contestant_b2_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_b2_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_b2_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_b2_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_b2_nationality_area_code

area code of contestants nationality

contestant_b2_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_b2_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_b2_short_name

short name of the contestant

contestant_b_common_name

common name of the contestant

contestant_b_draw_position

darw position of the contestant

contestant_b_first_name

first name of the contestant

contestant_b_id

unique identifier for the contestant

contestant_b_last_name

last name of the contestant

contestant_b_nationality_area_code

area code of contestants nationality

contestant_b_nationality_area_id

unique area_id of the contestants nationality

contestant_b_nationality_area_name

nationality of the contestant

contestant_b_seeding

seeding of the contestant

contestant_b_short_name

match name of the contestant

contestant_team_a_draw_position

darw position of the contestant team

contestant_team_a_id

unique identifier for the contestant team/double

contestant_team_a_seeding

seeding of the contestant team

contestant_team_b_draw_position

darw position of the contestant team

contestant_team_b_id

unique identifier for the contestant team/double

contestant_team_b_seeding

seeding of the contestant team

contestant_team_id

unique identifier for the contestant team/double

date

date of match, format 'yyyy-mm-dd' (CET)

date_utc

date of match, format 'yyyy-mm-dd' (UTC)

final_period

display the period in which the match finished.

last_updated

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

match_id

unique identifier of match

score_a

full-time score of team_a

score_b

full-time score of team_b

status

status of the game (Played, Playing, Fixture, Cancelled, Postponed, Suspended, Awarded, Break, Retired, Bye, No Contest, Disqualified, Tech Knockout, Knockout, Draw, Submission) + (Cricket-specific = No Result, Tea, Lunch, Dinner, between Innings, Stumps, rain delay, bad light, crowd trouble, pitch condition, start delay, drinks, super over, floodlight failure)

team_a_area_code

three-letter-acronym of the area where the home team origins

team_a_area_id

unique area_id for team_a

team_a_area_name

area name of home team origins county

team_a_id

unique team ID for team_a

team_a_logo

team logo URL

team_a_name

current name of team_a

team_a_original_name

the real name at the particular season (so can differ to current name)

team_a_short_name

short name of the home team

team_a_tla_name

three-letter-acronym of team_a

team_b_area_code

three-letter-acronym of the area where the home team origins

team_b_area_id

unique area_id for team_b

team_b_area_name

area name of away team origins county

team_b_id

unique team ID for team_b

team_b_logo

team logo URL

team_b_name

current name of team_b

team_b_original_name

the real name at the particular season (so can differ to current name)

team_b_short_name

short name of team_b

team_b_tla_name

three-letter-acronym of team_b

time

start time (CET), format 'hh:mm:ss'.

time_utc

start time (UTC), format 'hh:mm:ss'

venue_type

determines if the match is on neutral ground or on home/away basis (home_away or neutral)

winner

determines the winner of match ('team_A','team_B','draw','yet unknown')

method❯

details about the API function

method_id

unique ID of method

name

name of method

round❯

details about the round

end_date

end date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

end_date_utc

end date in UTC timezone, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

end_time

end time, format 'HH:mm:ss'

end_time_utc

end time in UTC timezone, format 'HH:mm:ss'

last_updated

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

name

name of round

round_id

unique identifier of round

start_date

start date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

start_date_utc

start date in UTC timezone, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'.

start_time

start time, format 'HH:mm:ss'

start_time_utc

start time in UTC timezone, format 'HH:mm:ss'

type

determines if the round contains a table or a cup structure (knock-out)

round_extra❯

extra round information

current_gameweek

displays the gameweek of nearest match to today

medal_round

indicates if medals are awarded in this round

status

status of the round (Scheduled,Live,Played,Postponed,Cancelled,Break)

total_gameweek

displays the total of gameweeks for this round

tour❯

details about the tour

gender

gender of the tour

name

name of the particular tour

tour_id

unique tour identifier

tour_type

defines if the tournament is part of a tour or not. If not then value "non-tour"

tour_season❯

details about a tour season

logo

full path URL of logo for particular tour_season

name

name of the tour_season

title

title of the particular tour season

tour_season_id

unique identifier of a tour season

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}/bowls/get_matches?type=season&id={season_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}/bowls/get_matches?type=season&id={season_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}/bowls/get_matches?type=season&id={season_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}/bowls/get_matches?type=season&id={season_id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}", auth=("User", "Password"))

Response Example

200 Success