ESPN statistical leaders

The statistical leaders of a league for a season: for every category (passing yards, rushing yards, sacks, points, rebounds, assists, home runs, goals ...) the ranked players with value, player details and team. Pick the season, the season type and how many leaders per category; category returns one category.

Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.

Parameters

Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).

Example

curl "https://api.api.sh/espn/v1/leaders?league=nfl" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/espn/v1/leaders",
    params={"league": "nfl"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()

const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/espn/v1/leaders");
url.searchParams.set("league", "nfl");

const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();

Response

A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).