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List of NFL API Endpoints

This page has been updated a lot in the past 3 years. Older revisions you might like more than this one:

  • June 2021 - list of endpoints for other sports/leagues (i.e. nba, nhl, mlb)
  • August 2021 - get historical fantasy league data
  • September 2021 - list of endpoints in plain text
  • May 2023 - collapsed endpoint response examples
  • Mar 2025 - endpoints from partners.api.espn.com *NEW*

Additional Resources

Notes

  • This page is limited to NFL endpoints but can be refashioned for other leagues (i.e. /sports/football/leagues/nfl/ => /sports/baseball/leagues/mlb/)
    List of ESPN leagues: API | Document

Paramaters

  • {YEAR}: Football season (YYYY)
  • {SEASONTYPE}: 1=pre, 2=regular, 3=post, 4=off
  • {EVENT_ID}: game id
  • {TEAM_ID}: 1-32 (view all)
  • {ATHLETE_ID}: view all
  • {FANTASY_LEAGUE_ID}: Fantasy league id
  • {BET_PROVIDER_ID}: view all

Table of Contents

Game Night

Reference List

Get list of ids

[TOC]

News

Detailed

Get live updates (xhr=1)

Odds

[TOC]

Teams

[TOC]

Games

[TOC]

Athletes

[TOC]

Calendar

Scoreboard

Leagues

Search

[TOC]

Pick em challenges

Parameters

  • {USER_GAME_ID}
  • {GROUP_ID}
  • CHALLENGE {ID} and {NAME}
    • [231] nfl-win-totals-2023
    • [232] nfl-eliminator-challenge-2023
    • [230] nfl-pigskin-pickem-2023
  • {VIEW_NAME}
    • ⭐ allon
    • ⭐ chui_default
    • chui_default_group
    • chui_default_groupParticipationHistory
    • chui_default_metadata
    • chui_pagetype_group_picks
    • pagetype_leaderboard

Fantasy

v3 header:
X-Fantasy-Filter: {"players":{"limit":2000},"filterActive":{"value":true}}

[TOC]

Curl Fantasy Filters

Fantasy Stats

  • Position

    { "1": "QB",
  "2": "RB",
  "3": "WR",
  "4": "TE",
  "5": "K",
 "16": "DST" }

  • Player stats
    View

[TOC]

Endpoints

Athlete endpoints

eventlog, gamelog, projections.. etc

Calendar endpoints

Blacklist dates, whitelist dates, events

Season endpoints

Game weeks, Season types, weekly events, weekly picks

Betting endpoints

Betting, odds, draft

Metainfo endpoints

Franchise, news, venues

Team endpoints

Depthcharts, injuries, coaches, roster, odds records

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Athletes:

https://partners.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/nfl/athletes?limit=7000

https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v3/sports/football/nfl/athletes?page=1&limit=20000

Events

https://partners.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/nfl/events?limit=1000
&dates=20230101-20240101 or &dates=20230101 or &dates=2023

Fantasy

https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/{{YEAR}}/players?view={{VIEW_NAME}}

# To get more than 50 items, run in terminal:
curl -H 'X-Fantasy-Filter: {"games":{"limit":2000}}' <URL>

Views (that I know of):

Stat column names

id   displayid  abbrev    description
---  ---------  --------  --------------------------------
0    7          PA        Each Pass Attempted
1    8          PC        Each Pass Completed
2    11         INC       Each Incomplete Pass
3    0          PY        Passing Yards
4    14         PTD       TD Pass
5    1          PY5       Every 5 passing yards
6    2          PY10      Every 10 passing yards
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id   displayid  abbrev    description
---  ---------  --------  --------------------------------
0    7          PA        Each Pass Attempted
1    8          PC        Each Pass Completed
2    11         INC       Each Incomplete Pass
3    0          PY        Passing Yards
4    14         PTD       TD Pass
5    1          PY5       Every 5 passing yards
6    2          PY10      Every 10 passing yards
7    3          PY20      Every 20 passing yards 
8    4          PY25      Every 25 passing yards 
9    5          PY50      Every 50 passing yards
10   6          PY100     Every 100 passing yards
11   9          PC5       Every 5 pass completions
12   10         PC10      Every 10 pass completions
13   12         IP5       Every 5 pass incompletions
14   13         IP10      Every 10 pass incompletions
15   15         PTD40     40+ yard TD pass bonus
16   16         PTD50     50+ yard TD pass bonus
17   20         P300      300-399 yard passing game
18   21         P400      400+ yard passing game
19   19         2PC       2pt Passing Conversion
20   18         INTT      Interceptions Thrown
21   155        CPCT      Passing Completion Pct
22   156        PYPG      Passing Yards Per Game
23   30         RA        Rushing Attempts
24   23         RY        Rushing Yards
25   33         RTD       TD Rush
26   37         2PR       2pt Rushing Conversion
27   24         RY5       Every 5 rushing yards
28   25         RY10      Every 10 rushing yards
29   26         RY20      Every 20 rushing yards
30   27         RY25      Every 25 rushing yards 
31   28         RY50      Every 50 rushing yards
32   29         R100      Every 100 rushing yards
33   31         RA5       Every 5 rush attempts
34   32         RA10      Every 10 rush attempts
35   34         RTD40     40+ yard TD rush bonus
36   35         RTD50     50+ yard TD rush bonus
37   38         RY100     100-199 yard rushing game
38   39         RY200     200+ yard rushing game
39   157        RYPA      Rushing Yards Per Attempt
40   158        RYPG      Rushing Yards Per Game
41   159        RECS      Receptions
42   40         REY       Receiving Yards
43   50         RETD      TD Reception
44   54         2PRE      2pt Receiving Conversion
45   51         RETD40    40+ yard TD rec bonus
46   52         RETD50    50+ yard TD rec bonus
47   41         REY5      Every 5 receiving yards
48   42         REY10     Every 10 receiving yards
49   43         REY20     Every 20 receiving yards
50   44         REY25     Every 25 receiving yards
51   45         REY50     Every 50 receiving yards
52   46         RE100     Every 100 receiving yards
53   47         REC       Each reception
54   48         REC5      Every 5 receptions
55   49         REC10     Every 10 receptions
56   55         REY100    100-199 yard receiving game
57   56         REY200    200+ yard receiving game
58   57         RET       Receiving Target
59   160        YAC       Receiving Yards After Catch
60   161        YPC       Receiving Yards Per Catch
61   162        REYPG     Receiving Yards Per Game
62   163        PTL       Total 2pt Conversions
63   66         FTD       Fumble Recovered for TD
64   22         SKD       Sacked
65   164        PFUM      Passing Fumbles
66   165        RFUM      Rushing Fumbles
67   166        REFUM     Receiving Fumbles
68   67         FUM       Total Fumbles
69   167        PFUML     Passing Fumbles Lost
70   168        RFUML     Rushing Fumbles Lost
71   169        REFUML    Receiving Fumbles Lost
72   68         FUML      Total Fumbles Lost
73   170        TT        Total Turnovers
74   84         FG50P     FG Made (50+ yards)
75   171        FGA50P    FG Attempted (50+ yards)
76   172        FGM50P    FG Missed (50+ yards)
77   83         FG40      FG Made (40-49 yards)
78   86         FGA40     FG Attempted (40-49 yards)
79   89         FGM40     FG Missed (40-49 yards)
80   82         FG0       FG Made (0-39 yards)
81   85         FGA0      FG Attempted (0-39 yards)
82   88         FGM0      FG Missed (0-39 yards)
83   79         FG        Total FG Made
84   80         FGA       Total FG Attempted
85   81         FGM       Total FG Missed
86   76         PAT       Each PAT Made
87   77         PATA      Each PAT Attempted
88   78         PATM      Each PAT Missed
89   136        PA0       0 points allowed
90   137        PA1       1-6 points allowed
91   138        PA7       7-13 points allowed
92   139        PA14      14-17 points allowed
93   73         BLKKRTD   Blocked Punt or FG return for TD
94   173        DEFRETTD  Fumble or INT Return for TD
95   113        INT       Each Interception
96   114        FR        Each Fumble Recovered
97   112        BLKK      Blocked Punt, PAT or FG
98   116        SF        Each Safety
99   107        SK        Each Sack
100  108        HALFSK    1/2 Sack
101  64         KRTD      Kickoff Return TD
102  65         PRTD      Punt Return TD
103  71         INTTD     Interception Return TD
104  72         FRTD      Fumble Return TD
105  174        TRTD      Total Return TD
106  115        FF        Each Fumble Forced
107  117        TKA       Assisted Tackles
108  118        TKS       Solo Tackles
109  109        TK        Total Tackles
110  110        TK3       Every 3 Total Tackles
111  111        TK5       Every 5 Total Tackles
112  119        STF       Stuffs
113  120        PD        Passes Defensed
114  58         KR        Kickoff Return Yards
115  61         PR        Punt Return Yards
116  59         KR10      Every 10 kickoff return yards
117  60         KR25      Every 25 kickoff return yards
118  62         PR10      Every 10 punt return yards
119  63         PR25      Every 25 punt return yards
120  135        PTSA      Points Allowed
121  140        PA18      18-21 points allowed
122  141        PA22      22-27 points allowed
123  142        PA28      28-34 points allowed
124  143        PA35      35-45 points allowed
125  144        PA46      46+ points allowed
126  175        PAPG      Points Allowed Per Game
127  145        YA        Yards Allowed
128  146        YA100     Less than 100 total yards allowed
129  147        YA199     100-199 total yards allowed
130  148        YA299     200-299 total yards allowed
131  149        YA349     300-349 total yards allowed
132  150        YA399     350-399 total yards allowed
133  151        YA449     400-449 total yards allowed
134  152        YA499     450-499 total yards allowed
135  153        YA549     500-549 total yards allowed
136  154        YA550     550+ total yards allowed
137  176        YAPG      Yards Allowed Per Game
138  91         PT        Net Punts
139  92         PTY       Punt Yards
140  93         PT10      Punts Inside the 10
141  94         PT20      Punts Inside the 20
142  95         PTB       Blocked Punts
143  96         PTR       Punts Returned
144  97         PTRY      Punt Return Yards
145  98         PTTB      Touchbacks
146  99         PTFC      Fair Catches
147  177        PTAVG     Punt Average
148  100        PTA44     Punt Average 44.0+
149  101        PTA42     Punt Average 42.0-43.9
150  102        PTA40     Punt Average 40.0-41.9
151  103        PTA38     Punt Average 38.0-39.9
152  104        PTA36     Punt Average 36.0-37.9
153  105        PTA34     Punt Average 34.0-35.9
154  106        PTA33     Punt Average 33.9 or less
155  69         TW        Team Win
156  70         TL        Team Loss
157  121        TIE       Team Tie
158  122        PTS       Points Scored
159  178        PPG       Points Scored Per Game
160  179        MGN       Margin of Victory
161  123        WM25      25+ point Win Margin
162  124        WM20      20-24 point Win Margin
163  125        WM15      15-19 point Win Margin
164  126        WM10      10-14 point Win Margin
165  127        WM5       5-9 point Win Margin
166  128        WM1       1-4 point Win Margin
167  129        LM1       1-4 point Loss Margin
168  130        LM5       5-9 point Loss Margin
169  131        LM10      10-14 point Loss Margin
170  132        LM15      15-19 point Loss Margin
171  133        LM20      20-24 point Loss Margin
172  134        LM25      25+ point Loss Margin
173  180        MGNPG     Margin of Victory Per Game
174  181        WINPCT    Winning Pct
175  182        PTD0      0-9 yd TD pass bonus
176  183        PTD10     10-19 yd TD pass bonus
177  184        PTD20     20-29 yd TD pass bonus
178  185        PTD30     30-39 yd TD pass bonus
179  186        RTD0      0-9 yd TD rush bonus
180  187        RTD10     10-19 yd TD rush bonus
181  188        RTD20     20-29 yd TD rush bonus
182  189        RTD30     30-39 yd TD rush bonus
183  190        RETD0     0-9 yd TD rec bonus
184  191        RETD10    10-19 yd TD rec bonus
185  192        RETD20    20-29 yd TD rec bonus
186  193        RETD30    30-39 yd TD rec bonus
187  194        DPTSA     D/ST Points Allowed
188  195        DPA0      D/ST 0 points allowed
189  196        DPA1      D/ST 1-6 points allowed
190  197        DPA7      D/ST 7-13 points allowed
191  198        DPA14     D/ST 14-17 points allowed
192  199        DPA18     D/ST 18-21 points allowed
193  200        DPA22     D/ST 22-27 points allowed
194  201        DPA28     D/ST 28-34 points allowed
195  202        DPA35     D/ST 35-45 points allowed
196  203        DPA46     D/ST 46+ points allowed
197  204        DPAPG     D/ST Points Allowed Per Game
198  205        FG50      FG Made (50-59 yards)
199  87         FGA50     FG Attempted (50-59 yards)
200  90         FGM50     FG Missed (50-59 yards)
201  206        FG60      FG Made (60+ yards)
202  207        FGA60     FG Attempted (60+ yards)
203  208        FGM60     FG Missed (60+ yards)
204  209        O2PRET    Offensive 2pt Return
205  210        D2PRET    Defensive 2pt Return
206  74         2PRET     2pt Return
207  211        O1PSF     Offensive 1pt Safety
208  212        D1PSF     Defensive 1pt Safety
209  75         1PSF      1pt Safety
210  213        GP        Games Played
211  17         PFD       Passing First Down
212  36         RFD       Rushing First Down
213  53         REFD      Receiving First Down
214  214        FGY       FG Made Yards
215  215        FGMY      FG Missed Yards
216  216        FGAY      FG Attempt Yards
217  217        FGY5      Every 5 FG Made yards
218  218        FGY10     Every 10 FG Made yards
219  219        FGY20     Every 20 FG Made yards
220  220        FGY25     Every 25 FG Made yards
221  221        FGY50     Every 50 FG Made yards
222  222        FGY100    Every 100 FG Made yards
223  223        FGMY5     Every 5 FG Missed yards
224  224        FGMY10    Every 10 FG Missed yards
225  225        FGMY20    Every 20 FG Missed yards
226  226        FGMY25    Every 25 FG Missed yards
227  227        FGMY50    Every 50 FG Missed yards
228  228        FGMY100   Every 100 FG Missed yards
229  229        FGAY5     Every 5 FG Attempt yards
230  230        FGAY10    Every 10 FG Attempt yards
231  231        FGAY20    Every 20 FG Attempt yards
232  232        FGAY25    Every 25 FG Attempt yards
233  233        FGAY50    Every 50 FG Attempt yards
234  234        FGAY100   Every 100 FG Attempt yards
@JimNayzium
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You're probably right!!!

Here is another random question for anyone to figure out:
Check out this link: https://static.www.nfl.com/gamecenter/ae9d66f7-1312-11ef-afd1-646009f18b2e.pdf
This the game book you can download from any NFL.com link on the box score page.

Particularly look at K.Mitchell KOR statistics. He has 3 for 79 yards.

When I look through the play by play descriptions I see:

C.Boswell kicks 62 yards from PIT 35 to BLT 3. K.Mitchell to BLT 29 for 26 yards (M.Robinson).

C.Boswell kicks 65 yards from PIT 35 to BLT 0. K.Mitchell to BLT 28 for 28 yards (B.Bishop).
PENALTY on BLT-M.Harrison, Offensive Holding, 10 yards, enforced at BLT 24.

C.Boswell kicks 63 yards from PIT 35 to BLT 2. K.Mitchell pushed ob at BLT 31 for 29 yards (B.Bishop).

Can anyone make it make sense how the NFL determines that K. Mitchell has 3 returns for 79 yards?

To me the ones without the penalties are easy:
26 yards
29 yards
55 yards on those two.

So to end with 3 for 79 the third one calculated must be 24 yards, right?

Does that mean they credit the Return yards all the way up to WHERE the penalty occurred? The ball ends on the 14 yard line after the 10 yard penalty. To me it feels like K. Mitchell should get a 14 yard return on the one with the penalty, but it's pretty clear they give him the 24 yards from the 0 yard line to the 24 where the Holding occurred. Versus where the BALL ends up after the holding is enforced.

Is that the same way they would do a running play? If a RB has a 35 yard run, but after a holding downfield on a WR is enforced the gain on the play is 10 total yards from the LOS. Would that mean the RB gets a 20 yard run on his stats? That seems wierd to me.

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right now https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/nfl/seasons/2024/types/2/athletes/3915416/statistics and https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/nfl/seasons/2024/types/2/athletes/3915416/projections

show the same stats. Is this suppose to happen since it is the off-season meaning it will update when the 2025 season comes around?

Was looking into something similar recently. My assumption is you're right but maybe just check the projections endpoint for 2025 once in awhile prior to July 31st.

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The description text in the plays feeds refers to the players who get penalties like this:

PENALTY on BUF-Do.Williams.

But I cannot find any references from the feeds on where that short name gets defined. The athlete individual end points have a shortName property that in this case would be equal to:

D. Williams

But no where in the feeds can I find Dorian Williams referenced as BUF-Do.Williams or Do.Williams.

Which is not the biggest deal as we can recreate a player database to match them all I guess, but it just feels like ESPN has this information out there if we could find it. They clearly add the second and third letter to the abbreviation when multiple players on the same team would match if they left it one letter.

Anyone seen this information in a roster feed or team feed somewhere?

I can't check until later today but am 99% sure you just need to work with the "core" prefix instead of "site".

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I can't check until later today but am 99% sure you just need to work with the "core" prefix instead of "site".

Not sure exactly what you mean, as all the links I am asking about do start with sports.core?

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Has anyone else noticed that Kickoff Returners are not assigned a participant type of returner sometimes? Meaning, if we want to accumulate or track kickoff yardage that was not returned for a touchdown from the plays or drives, we have to just do a string parsing of the description texts. That seems insane on ESPN's side of things. Surely I am missing something?

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I can't check until later today but am 99% sure you just need to work with the "core" prefix instead of "site".

Not sure exactly what you mean, as all the links I am asking about do start with sports.core?

Oh my fault I was just assuming you hadn't gotten that deep in the weeds yet. My approach is to just take play--> participant->$ref - that way you have 100% certainty on the participant. Then just load the json locally after saving it once before the season or whatever approach you prefer.

Also I came across your previous discussion about rate limiting. For whatever reason I used to get popped routinely when sending requests to the site prefix but have never had issues with core. I'm not even gonna say how many I've sent in 1 day but 2500 is nothing.

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No worries, and thanks for the input!!! That's great to know!
And not all relevant player_id's make it into the participants array, which is why I was asking about that short name.
Often the play is not a penalty type id, if it was declined or enforced betweened downs etc... So I guess I was asking "For player names NOT in the participants array who DO appear in the description, does anyone know where those short names are referenced?"

It's obvious that it's just First initial and last name, UNLESS teh current roster has 2 of those, then it's first two letters and last name, and first three letters and so on and so forth... but just wasn't really able to easily find that information so it's a pain when you are trying to reverse engineer that stuff. Especially when you realize Sauce Gardner is referenced with A.Gardner hahahaah and all sorts of other things like that that make it maddening!

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No worries, and thanks for the input!!! That's great to know! And not all relevant player_id's make it into the participants array, which is why I was asking about that short name. Often the play is not a penalty type id, if it was declined or enforced betweened downs etc... So I guess I was asking "For player names NOT in the participants array who DO appear in the description, does anyone know where those short names are referenced?"

It's obvious that it's just First initial and last name, UNLESS teh current roster has 2 of those, then it's first two letters and last name, and first three letters and so on and so forth... but just wasn't really able to easily find that information so it's a pain when you are trying to reverse engineer that stuff. Especially when you realize Sauce Gardner is referenced with A.Gardner hahahaah and all sorts of other things like that that make it maddening!

Oh man I get the issue now. Got me having flashbacks to when the NBA broke my code after Marcus and Markieff Morris both ended up on the Suns. Doing a ton of random things with core api the next couple days - if I come across anything that may help I'll report back.

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Can anyone see how we are supposed to know that Josh Downs had 13 rushing yards credited on this play, And Anthony Richardson gets 3? OTHER than parsing through the text or shortText properties and figuring it out?

The statYardage property is 3 yards. The start and end of the play would be different from the statYardage obviously so we could possibly sniff it out that way.

But if feels like Anthony Richardson should also be in the participants array with his own "rusher" value and each participant have their own statYardage.

If you look at the stats array under Josh Downs participant item, it says 13 yards, but had he already had 20 rushing yards in the game that number would be 32.

https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/nfl/events/401671856/competitions/401671856/plays/4016718562290

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This is awesome stuff! This is kind of what I have been looking for. I just don't know if this is possible what I am trying to do.

Is it possible to get live scoring of an actual NFL playoff game for fantasy stats? We do our fantasy playoffs during the actual playoffs and we have been calculated scores by hand, but would love to be able to just connect this API to a google sheet and then create formulas to get our scores. We would use the following score types from the fantasy section.

id   displayid  abbrev    description
---  ---------  --------  --------------------------------
3    0          PY        Passing Yards
4    14         PTD       TD Pass
15   15         PTD40     40+ yard TD pass bonus
16   16         PTD50     50+ yard TD pass bonus
17   20         P300      300-399 yard passing game
18   21         P400      400+ yard passing game
19   19         2PC       2pt Passing Conversion
20   18         INTT      Interceptions Thrown

24   23         RY        Rushing Yards
25   33         RTD       TD Rush
26   37         2PR       2pt Rushing Conversion
35   34         RTD40     40+ yard TD rush bonus
36   35         RTD50     50+ yard TD rush bonus
37   38         RY100     100-199 yard rushing game
38   39         RY200     200+ yard rushing game

42   40         REY       Receiving Yards
43   50         RETD      TD Reception
44   54         2PRE      2pt Receiving Conversion
45   51         RETD40    40+ yard TD rec bonus
46   52         RETD50    50+ yard TD rec bonus
53   47         REC       Each reception
56   55         REY100    100-199 yard receiving game
57   56         REY200    200+ yard receiving game

63   66         FTD       Fumble Recovered for TD
72   68         FUML      Total Fumbles Lost
101  64         KRTD      Kickoff Return TD
102  65         PRTD      Punt Return TD
103  71         INTTD     Interception Return TD
104  72         FRTD      Fumble Return TD

74   84         FG50P     FG Made (50+ yards)
76   172        FGM50P    FG Missed (50+ yards)
77   83         FG40      FG Made (40-49 yards)
79   89         FGM40     FG Missed (40-49 yards)
80   82         FG0       FG Made (0-39 yards)
82   88         FGM0      FG Missed (0-39 yards)
86   76         PAT       Each PAT Made
88   78         PATM      Each PAT Missed

89   136        PA0       0 points allowed
90   137        PA1       1-6 points allowed
91   138        PA7       7-13 points allowed
92   139        PA14      14-17 points allowed
93   73         BLKKRTD   Blocked Punt or FG return for TD
94   173        DEFRETTD  Fumble or INT Return for TD
95   113        INT       Each Interception
96   114        FR        Each Fumble Recovered
97   112        BLKK      Blocked Punt, PAT or FG
98   116        SF        Each Safety
99   107        SK        Each Sack
121  140        PA18      18-21 points allowed
122  141        PA22      22-27 points allowed
123  142        PA28      28-34 points allowed
124  143        PA35      35-45 points allowed
125  144        PA46      46+ points allowed
206  74         2PRET     2pt Return
209  75         1PSF      1pt Safety

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I am currently trying to find the endpoints of certain reporters on every sport. However, I am encountering an error on NFL, I just can't get the API endpoint out.

So far I could somehow find out all team IDs, but not the contributor ID or that of Reporter.
Does anyone have a clue?

@MABeatty1978
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Any chance someone has found an endpoint for the American Hockey League (AHL)?

@JimNayzium
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I am currently trying to find the endpoints of certain reporters on every sport. However, I am encountering an error on NFL, I just can't get the API endpoint out.

So far I could somehow find out all team IDs, but not the contributor ID or that of Reporter. Does anyone have a clue?

Everything I find that acts like it attributes a "source" to any information is at best "inconsistent" and at worst usually just useless.

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Is there a special end point just for kick off returns? Has anyone else noticed that none of the 2024 participant arrays on any kickoff include a "returner" participant like the punt plays do? Is it possible ESPN calculates KOR yardage purely from text-parsing the descriptions? Surely not?

There is a play-type-id of 53 which is Kickoff (Defense) and play-type-id 12 which is Kickoff Returns, but the play-type-id of 12 is just NEVER in the 2024 drives or plays end points at all.

And to be clear, in the play-type-id 53, often there are "returner" types present in the participants array, but as often, even when the play is not a touchback and not a penalty, there is NOT a returner in the participants array. Its very strange.

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Is there a special end point just for kick off returns? Has anyone else noticed that none of the 2024 participant arrays on any kickoff include a "returner" participant like the punt plays do? Is it possible ESPN calculates KOR yardage purely from text-parsing the descriptions? Surely not?

There is a play-type-id of 53 which is Kickoff (Defense) and play-type-id 12 which is Kickoff Returns, but the play-type-id of 12 is just NEVER in the 2024 drives or plays end points at all.

And to be clear, in the play-type-id 53, often there are "returner" types present in the participants array, but as often, even when the play is not a touchback and not a penalty, there is NOT a returner in the participants array. Its very strange.

I have a little data to update this frustration, that could be useful to anyone else.

It would appear that all kickoffs stopped getting a play-type-id of "12" after week 10 of 2024. Before that, going back to 2022, Espn's play-type-id could be 53,12, or 32 for a kickoff. 32 being a TD return. 12 being an offensive returned kick, and 53 being a touchback or otherwise no returner relevant.

BUT after week 10 of 2024, the id of 53 stayed, and became the only one, and the "returner" type was LEFT out OFF the participants array! Super frustrating if that is what will be the norm moving forward.

Maybe it was an oversight that gets corrected next season somehow.

I HAVE TO imagine this impacted EsPN fantasy leagues who award return yards without leagues even realizing it happened! Crazy.

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It makes sense why odds would be removed, but play by play line score, box score stats in my experience stick around for a good while.

I am more just curious why individual plays in different games are not enforced with the same rules statistically from game to game week to week.

Sometimes on a play with laterals, all the recipients of the lateral get stat yards, and other times they do not.

Also, a glaring thing to me is it would appear from the play by play data that if a player intercepts a pass, then during that play laterals to a teammate, that the final player with the ball when the play ends is labelled by ESPN as both the "returner" and the "passDefender" which means the "passDefender" is credited with the interception statistically.

Surely they must go back and manually reallocate that interception statistic?

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I am currently trying to find the endpoints of certain reporters on every sport. However, I am encountering an error on NFL, I just can't get the API endpoint out.
So far I could somehow find out all team IDs, but not the contributor ID or that of Reporter. Does anyone have a clue?

Everything I find that acts like it attributes a "source" to any information is at best "inconsistent" and at worst usually just useless.

I'm a bit lost :D I still can't figure it out

For example, I want to pull the posts from Adam Schefter [https://www.espn.com/contributor/adam-schefter] directly to my Discord server
But somehow I cannot find his endpoint / ID

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nntrn commented Mar 10, 2025

For example, I want to pull the posts from Adam Schefter [https://www.espn.com/contributor/adam-schefter] directly to my Discord server But somehow I cannot find his endpoint / ID

@SuspectAG - here ya go

https://site.web.api.espn.com/apis/v2/flex?region=us&lang=en&contentorigin=espn&contributor=adam-schefter&limit=100&pubkey=contributor-page

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SuspectAG commented Mar 10, 2025 •
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For example, I want to pull the posts from Adam Schefter [https://www.espn.com/contributor/adam-schefter] directly to my Discord server But somehow I cannot find his endpoint / ID

@SuspectAG - here ya go

https://site.web.api.espn.com/apis/v2/flex?region=us&lang=en&contentorigin=espn&contributor=adam-schefter&limit=100&pubkey=contributor-page

Wow you are goated, thanks! <3

edit:
and it works like charm! the way I wanted it, for my Server no more X/Twitter 👍
Tested it and with some tweaks its fine

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nntrn commented Mar 11, 2025

Any chance someone has found an endpoint for the American Hockey League (AHL)?

@MABeatty1978
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/hockey/leagues/nhl

List of endpoints for other leagues (mlb, mma, rugby, soccer, etc)
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nntrn/ee26cb2a0716de0947a0a4e9a157bc1c/raw/b99b9e0d2df72470fa622e2f76cecb0362111e9a/extending-espn-api.md

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nntrn commented Mar 11, 2025

Is it possible to get live scoring of an actual NFL playoff game for fantasy stats? We do our fantasy playoffs during the actual playoffs and we have been calculated scores by hand, but would love to be able to just connect this API to a google sheet and then create formulas to get our scores. We would use the following score types from the fantasy section.

@tdart5 - i threw a bunch of stuff together but i hope something helps

https://site.api.espn.com/apis/fantasy/v2/games/ffl/news/players?limit=50&playerId=2977187

https://gambit-api.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v1/dashboards/espn-en?view=allon
https://gambit-api.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v1/challenges/tournament-challenge-bracket-2024/groups/6e682872-7e5f-3aa2-84bf-003cb6a630ae?view=chui_pagetype_group_picks

https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024/players?view=players_wl
https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024/players?view=kona_player_info
https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024/players?scoringPeriodId=0&view=allon
https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024?view=proTeamSchedules_wl
https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024?view=chui_default_platformsettings

Header for increasing the limit returned: X-Fantasy-Filter: {"players":{"limit":3000}}

Example 
curl -H 'X-Fantasy-Filter: {"players":{"limit":3000}}' 'https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/2024/players?view=players_wl'

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As far as I can tell, this url "https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/{sport}/leagues/{espn_league}/events/{espn_event_id}/competitions/{espn_event_id}/competitors/{espn_team_id}/roster"
doesn't work for college-football. For example:
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/events/%7Bespn_event_id%7D/competitions/401628322/competitors/57/roster
This url is a game between florida and uMiami. The team_id is for Florida. The url doesn't work and returns:
{"error":{"message":"Bad event id: '{espn_event_id}' or league 'college-football' not allowed","code":400}}

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As far as I can tell, this url "https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/{sport}/leagues/{espn_league}/events/{espn_event_id}/competitions/{espn_event_id}/competitors/{espn_team_id}/roster" doesn't work for college-football. For example: https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/events/%7Bespn_event_id%7D/competitions/401628322/competitors/57/roster This url is a game between florida and uMiami. The team_id is for Florida. The url doesn't work and returns: {"error":{"message":"Bad event id: '{espn_event_id}' or league 'college-football' not allowed","code":400}}

@adamruehle Read the error message, you have a typo in your url (passing '{espn_event_id}' as the first event id in the url:
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/events/%7Bespn_event_id%7D/competitions/401628322/competitors/57/roster

Should be:
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/events/401628322/competitions/401628322/competitors/57/roster

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hello, need help getting detailed injury reports per team. I can get it from :
https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/basketball/leagues/nba/teams/3/injuries

but returns links to individual players without names

i know the roster endpoint gives Status Out/Active but im looking for an endpoint that gives full team statuses with injury report. the ESPN injury page has it all for teams
https://www.espn.com/nba/team/injuries/_/name/chi/chicago-bulls

just cant get it in an endpoint, any help is appreciated thanks

update:

got this to work for individual nba teams

https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/injuries?team=ATL

for a matchup

https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/injuries?team=ATL&team=NYK
https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/injuries?team=ATL&team=NYY

Looks like you need to use abbreviations

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Heyho,

is there a way to get the NFL MVP from the API besides searching the news?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the games for college basketball within a specific date range. This link works:
https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard
But then it only shows me recent or upcoming events like the championship between florida and houston. If I try this link:
https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard?limit=1000&dates=20231218-20240107
I see this error on the webpage {"code":404,"message":"Failed to get events endpoint."}

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My 2 cents on the ESPN NBA data - it's unreliable and incomplete. You're better off using the NBA static JSON data they have because 1, most of their JSONs contain everything you need to know in a single request, and 2, it's more conducive to better quality data. The ESPN play by play data for example - there are player ID's in recent data for players who aren't active anymore. There are missing data points - my best example is 3 pointers. You only have descriptions to rely on to pull out the data. Sometimes the player names in the descriptions don't match the player ID's. I reverted to pulling the data from ESPN's website and even then, there are not enough data points to pull the info I wanted. The NBA data has the data points built in and there's little guessing.

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nntrn commented Apr 15, 2025

@adamruehle

if you're trying to target regular season games, my advice is to use
&dates=YYYY&seasontype=2 instead of &dates=YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD

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Endpoints for using &dates=YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD

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Concerning the NFL only,
Does anyone know any other status text ESPN uses to signify whehter a game is live in progress or not other than these?

  "STATUS_SCHEDULED" ,
  "STATUS_IN_PROGRESS",
  "STATUS_HALFTIME",
  "STATUS_END_PERIOD",
  "STATUS_FINAL"

For example is there a STATUS_OVERTIME or *_OVER_TIME maybe?
Or STATUS_POST_PONED? etc...

thanks!

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