ESPN play-by-play

Every play of a game in order: id, period and clock, play text and type, team, running away and home score, scoring flag and points, time stamp, participants with names, and for football the drive and the down and distance. Basketball, hockey, baseball and football games return plays; soccer games return the key events or commentary. Filter by period or scoring_only.

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/play-by-play?league=nba&event_id=401656363" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/espn/v1/play-by-play",
    params={"league": "nba", "event_id": "401656363"},
    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/play-by-play");
url.searchParams.set("league", "nba");
url.searchParams.set("event_id", "401656363");

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).