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Boot your integration with language-specific starter snippets that already include best practices for authentication, pagination, and error handling. Copy, paste, and deploy with production-ready defaults.

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Consistent schemas

Every snippet returns the same typed payloads you will encounter in production. Promote prototypes to production without rewriting data access layers.

Pagination & filtering

Examples showcase core query parameters including pagination cursors, text search, and sport/league filters to keep responses lean.

Error-first handling

Each language demonstrates defensive patterns for rate limits, transport failures, and validation errors so you can ship resilient integrations.

Copy-and-paste ready snippets

Each example mirrors our production endpoints and headers. Swap in your API key and start ingesting sports data instantly.

JavaScript (fetch)

Drop-in fetch example for Node.js or modern browsers with graceful error handling.

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const API_KEY = process.env.SPORTSDB_API_KEY;

async function listLeagues() {
  const response = await fetch('https://api.sportsdatabase.io/v1/list/leagues?sportId=FOOTBALL', {
    headers: {
      'X-API-Key': API_KEY ?? '',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  });

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error('Request failed: ' + response.status);
  }

  return response.json();
}

listLeagues().then(console.log).catch(console.error);

Python (requests)

Use the widely adopted requests library with native timeout and response validation.

import os
import requests

API_KEY = os.environ.get('SPORTSDB_API_KEY', '')


def fetch_team(team_id: str) -> dict:
    response = requests.get(
        f'https://api.sportsdatabase.io/v1/teams/{team_id}',
        headers={
            'X-API-Key': API_KEY,
            'Accept': 'application/json'
        },
        timeout=10
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response.json()


print(fetch_team('arsenal'))

Go (net/http)

Standard library example using net/http with header injection and streaming response handling.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.sportsdatabase.io/v1/list/sports", nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    req.Header.Set("X-API-Key", os.Getenv("SPORTSDB_API_KEY"))
    req.Header.Set("Accept", "application/json")

    res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer res.Body.Close()

    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

cURL (CLI)

Quick smoke-test for endpoints or integration with shell scripts and CI workflows.

curl   -H "X-API-Key: $SPORTSDB_API_KEY"   -H "Accept: application/json"   "https://api.sportsdatabase.io/v1/search/players?q=alex+morgan"

Launch faster with production defaults

The examples above already include pagination cursors, timeouts, and friendly error handling. They are the same patterns we use in our internal automations, so you can trust them to scale from prototype to production.

Pagination helpers
Sample utilities demonstrate iterating over `pageToken` responses to hydrate your local cache.
Rate limit awareness
Back-off logic and retry hints keep your integration within the allotted burst windows.
Schema forward compatible
Snippets leverage documented fields only, so upcoming schema additions do not break your builds.

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