DataSportsGroup API - Squash

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v4 GET /squash/get_contestants

Returns a list of contestants

Request URL

https://dsg-api.com/clients/{client_name}/squash/get_contestants?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}&type=discipline&type_id={discipline_id}&season={season_id}

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'

season

int Required

unique season identifier

type

string Required

type=discipline_id is required

type_id

int Required

discipline_id to be filtered

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)

contestant❯

details about the contestant

common_name

common name of the person

contestant_team_id

unique identifier for the contestant team/double

first_name

first name of the person

last_name

last name of the person

nationality_area_code

three character area code

nationality_area_id

unique identifier for an area

nationality_area_name

area name of peoples nationality

people_id

unique identifier for person

short_name

shortened name of the person

slug

widget slug to be used for athlete widget (multisport)

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

discipline❯

basic information about the discipline

discipline_id

unique identifier of the discipline

name

name of the discipline

type

type of discipline (contestant, contestant_team or team)

gender❯

details about the gender

age_group

defines the age group (senior,u23,u22,u21....)

value

gender type (male, female or mixed)

membership❯

details about the membership

membership_id

unique identifier for the membership

team_id

unique identifier of the team

team_name

current team name

method❯

details about the API function

method_id

unique ID of method

name

name of method

round❯

basic details about the round

name

name of round

round_id

unique identifier of 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

team❯

details about the team

short_name

short name of the team.

team_area_code

three-letter acronym for the area of the team

team_area_id

unique identifier for an area

team_area_name

area name of the team

team_id

unique identifier of the team

team_logo

full path URL of team logo

team_name

current team name

tla_name

three letter acronym for this team

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}/squash/get_contestants?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}&type=discipline&type_id={discipline_id}&season={season_id}");
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}/squash/get_contestants?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}&type=discipline&type_id={discipline_id}&season={season_id}"

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}/squash/get_contestants?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}&type=discipline&type_id={discipline_id}&season={season_id}"
		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}/squash/get_contestants?client={client_name}&authkey={client_authkey}&type=discipline&type_id={discipline_id}&season={season_id}", auth=("User", "Password"))

Response Example

200 Success