DataSportsGroup API - Overwatch

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v3 GET /overwatch/get_matches

Returns all matches (and related events) that belong to a season, round or match

Request URL

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

detailed

string

only 'yes' is valid to display additional match details

discipline_id

int

unique identifier for a discipline

enddate

string

end date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd' (requires startdate to take effect)

ftype

string

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

gameweek

int

gameweek value to get matches from

gender

string

unique identifier for a gender (male,female)

int Required

object id to return

lang

string

two-character language code, defaults to 'en'

picsize

string

one of 200x200, 100x100, 50x50, 30x30 or 18x18 to get correct size of club logo.

pstats

string

'yes' and 'no' are valid, enables/disables player stat nodes

startdate

string

start date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd' (requires enddate to take effect)

team_id

int

use a team_id as value to filter the matches accordingly

timestamp

string

'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', will display only events after this timestamp

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

leaderboard❯

list of all players of the Overwatch match along with the stats (for all maps cumulated!)

assists

number of assists

common_name

common name of the person

deaths

number of deaths

first_name

first name of the person

hero1

1st selected hero

hero2

2nd selected hero

kills

number of kills

last_name

last name of the person

membership_id

unique identifier for the membership

minutes

number of minutes

nationality

nationality of the person

nationality_area_id

unique identifier for an area

people_id

unique identifier for person

role

role/position during the map

seconds

number of seconds

short_name

shortened name of the person

team_id

unique identifier of the team

team_name

current team name

ultimates

number of ultimates

list❯

details about list type

aggregation_type

aggregation type (scores or wins)

unique identifier for a group if type = group, if type = playoff then for a playoff

last_updated

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

name

name of either a group or playoff

score_a

playoff score of team_a

score_b

playoff score of team_b

type

list type (regular, group or playoff)

winner_team_id

unique identifier for the winning team of the playoff

map❯

details for the overwatch map

capture_progress_a

capture progress of team A

capture_progress_b

capture progress of team B

checkpoints_a

number of checkpoints of team A

checkpoints_b

number of checkpoints of team B

distance_pushed_a

distance pushed of team A

distance_pushed_b

distance pushed of team B

duration

duration of the particular map

map_id

unique identifier for the specific map

map_name

name of the map

period_type

unique identifier for the specific period

round_1_a

percentage for round 1 of team A

round_1_b

percentage for round 1 of team B

round_2_a

percentage for round 2 of team A

round_2_b

percentage for round 2 of team B

score_a

map score of team_a

score_b

map score of team_b

time_remaining_a

time remaining of team A

time_remaining_b

time remaining of team B

vod

video on demand link

map_vote❯

list of map picks/bans

map

name of the map

map_id

unique identifier for the specific map

team_id

unique identifier of the team

vote

type of the vote (ban or pick)

match❯

details about the match

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

season❯

details about the season

end_date

end date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

last_updated

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

logo

full path URL of logo for particular season

original_name

competition name during this season

season_id

unique identifier for season

start_date

start date, format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

title

title of 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}/overwatch/get_matches?type={type}&id={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}/overwatch/get_matches?type={type}&id={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}/overwatch/get_matches?type={type}&id={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}/overwatch/get_matches?type={type}&id={id}&client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}", auth=("User", "Password"))

Response Example

200 Success