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No. 10 · Pitch & field · Fixture sport

RugbyTries, cards and the world order.

Union and league, from the Six Nations to Super Rugby: tries, cards, lineups and the World Rugby rankings.

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Rugby12 endpoints · fixtures

Scouting report

What you get for Rugby

Rugby union and rugby league share one shape: scores by half, tries, conversions and cards as incidents, and lineups for covered competitions from the Six Nations to Super Rugby.

The World Rugby men's rankings are served alongside FIFA, ATP and the rest from one rankings endpoint, so a rankings page needs one code path for every sport.

First request

Every rugby match in play, one call.

The live board filtered to rugby: each match with its score, status and clock. The same request in four forms; pick yours.

  1. 1Create a key in the dashboard. Free gives you 1,000 requests a day during the beta.
  2. 2Put it in DATASPORTSAPI_API_KEY so the SDKs and the dsa command find it.
  3. 3Call /v2/livescores?sport=rugby.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer dsa_live_…" \
  "https://api.datasportsapi.com/v2/livescores?sport=rugby"

The catalog

Rugby, endpoint by endpoint

Its own detail first, then the shared spine every fixture sport answers on. Each row opens the endpoint’s reference page.

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Where rugby goes deeper

2 endpoints with detail specific to the sport.

  1. GETLineups/v2/fixtures/{id}/lineupsTeam lineups and formations plus unavailable players, with every player carrying a match rating and statistics.All plans
  2. GETRankings/v2/rankingsLists every ranking DataSportsAPI provides: FIFA (men), UEFA coefficients for countries and clubs, World Rugby (men), ATP and WTA singles in both official and live form, UTR ratings (men an…All plans

The shared spine

10 endpoints that behave the same for every fixture sport.

  1. GETLive scores/v2/livescoresReturns every live fixture across all sports, or a single sport’s in-play board when ?sport= is given.All plans
  2. GETFixtures by date/v2/fixturesLists the fixtures that start on a given UTC date.All plans
  3. GETFixture/v2/fixtures/{id}Everything we hold on one fixture.All plans
  4. GETEvents/v2/fixtures/{id}/eventsThe match’s incidents in chronological order, oldest first: goals, cards, substitutions, period markers and added-time announcements.All plans
  5. GETStatistics/v2/fixtures/{id}/statisticsTeam statistics for the match, organised by period and by category.All plans
  6. GETHead to head/v2/fixtures/{id}/h2hThe two teams’ head-to-head record as tallied by the source, seen from this fixture’s home / away point of view.All plans
  7. GETStandings/v2/leagues/{id}/standingsLeague tables for a single season.All plans
  8. GETTeam/v2/teams/{id}Returns a team’s profile — sport, country, venue, colours, logo, gender, whether it is a club or a national team, kind (team / individual / pair), manager and founding date (foundedOn, pres…All plans
  9. GETLeague/v2/leagues/{id}Returns a league’s profile: its tier (where it sits in the national pyramid), gender, the reigning champion with its title count, the clubs holding the most titles, the divisions directly a…All plans
  10. GETSearch/v2/searchA single search over teams (individual competitors included), players, managers, referees, leagues, fixtures, venues, racing series and races.All plans

What comes back

Rankings, as served

The catalogue of rankings we serve. World Rugby (men) sits in the same list as FIFA and the tennis tours.

GET/v2/rankingsAll plans

Sample from the docs, trimmed with …

GET /v2/rankings
{ "data": [ { "type": "fifa-men", "name": "FIFA World Ranking (men)", "sport": "football", "gender": "male", "entry": "team" },
    { "type": "uefa-countries", "name": "UEFA country coefficients", "sport": "football", "gender": null, "entry": "country" }, …,
    { "type": "atp", "name": "ATP singles ranking", "sport": "tennis", "gender": "male", "entry": "competitor" }, … ],
  "meta": { "count": 30 } }

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Rugby is one query string away.

Swap ?sport=rugby for any other fixture sport and the same code keeps working. Free key, no card.

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