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Categories

GET

/v2/categories

Plan
All plans
Auth
Bearer dsa_live_…
Parameters
1 required · 0 optional
Returns
Category[]
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Returns the categories of a sport — the buckets our data source sorts leagues into: countries, regions (Europe, International), tours (ATP) and esports titles.

Worth knowing

country is filled only for categories that represent a country. Use a category id with /v2/leagues?category=; if kind is races (motorsport, cycling), use /v2/series?category= instead, because race sports are organised into series rather than leagues.

01Parameters

  • sportqueryRequired

    sport slug, as listed by /v2/sports

02Request

The same call from the command line and each SDK. The SDK lines assume a client created with your key; left out, it is read from DATASPORTSAPI_API_KEY. Installing a client: SDKs & CLI.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer dsa_live_…" \
    "https://api.datasportsapi.com/v2/categories?sport=…"

03Response

The top-level keys of the JSON body. Each object links to its full shape in the data reference.

data
Category[]
meta
sport, kind (fixtures | races — the same value /v2/sports gives), count
ObjectsCategory
Example response
{ "data": [ { "id": 456, "name": "England", "slug": "england", "sport": "football", "country": { "code": "EN", "name": "England" } },
    { "id": 457, "name": "Oceania", "slug": "oceania", "sport": "football", "country": null }, … ],
  "meta": { "sport": "football", "kind": "fixtures", "count": 272 } }

04Errors

  • 400bad_request

    sport is absent or not recognised

Any key can also meet401unauthorized429rate_limited429quota_exceeded500internal_errorEvery error code