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ESPN's hidden API endpoints

Football

College Football

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/news

Latest Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/scoreboard

  • query params:

    • calendar: 'blacklist'
    • dates: any date in YYYYMMDD

Game Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/summary?event=:gameId

  • params:

    • gameId: identifier of some game (EX: 400934572 for 2017 Army vs Navy)

Team Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/teams/:team

  • params:

    • team: some team abbreviation (EX: 'all' for Allegheny, 'gt' for Georgia Tech, 'wisconsin' for Wisconsin)

Rankings: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/rankings

NFL

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/teams/:team

Baseball

MLB

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/mlb/teams/:team

College Baseball

Scores: https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/baseball/college-baseball/scoreboard

Hockey

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/hockey/nhl/teams/:team

Basketball

NBA

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/nba/teams/:team

WNBA

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/wnba/teams/:team

Women's College Basketball

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/womens-college-basketball/teams/:team

Men's College Basketball

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard

News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/news

All Teams: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/teams

Specific Team: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/teams/:team

Soccer

Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/scoreboard

  • params:

    • league: some league abbreviation (EX: 'eng.1' for EPL, 'usa.1' for MLS)

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/news

List of Team Information: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/soccer/:league/teams

Will update with more information as I find more...

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gdhshsbs commented Apr 3, 2026

I see a tournamentId. Maybe that can be helpful. Id = 22 in some of these TBD games. If the seed shows up and the round we can use it. I see a ["notes"] key where they have "Men's Basketball Championship - 1st Round"
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM jb082005 @.> wrote: _@**.* commented on this gist. ------------------------------ I wasn't able to find a tournament indicator in the ESPN endpoint. Let me know if you find one. … <#m-3902739222069110977_> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM cmwillett @.*> wrote: @. commented on this gist. ------------------------------ If you query with a date range, you can get the scheduled games. This does include all college basketball games, but it does have the tournament games. For example: https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/mens-college-basketball/scoreboard?dates=20250320-20250323&groups=50&limit=500 Got ya. That makes sense as well. I'm sure there's an element stating it's a tourney game in there. — I believe you can use groups=100 for NCAA tournament games — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://gist.github.com/akeaswaran/b48b02f1c94f873c6655e7129910fc3b#gistcomment-5490654 or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AANTBKNNZIKLTTG4XLI6BJD2UGYDHBFKMF2HI4TJMJ2XIZLTSKBKK5TBNR2WLJDUOJ2WLJDOMFWWLO3UNBZGKYLEL5YGC4TUNFRWS4DBNZ2F6YLDORUXM2LUPGBKK5TBNR2WLJDHNFZXJJDOMFWWLK3UNBZGKYLEL52HS4DFVRZXKYTKMVRXIX3UPFYGLK2HNFZXIQ3PNVWWK3TUUZ2G64DJMNZZDAVEOR4XAZNEM5UXG5FFOZQWY5LFVA4DGOBXGIZTEMVHORZGSZ3HMVZKMY3SMVQXIZI . You are receiving this email because you commented on the thread. Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675 or Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub .

This may help

http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/basketball/leagues/mens-college-basketball/events/401746030/competitions/401746030?lang=en&region=us

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That format does allow for viewing today's games (e.g. https://data.ncaa.com/casablanca/scoreboard/basketball-men/d1/2024/03/21/scoreboard.json), but I don't see how it could be used to retrieve the bracket ahead of time before the NCAA tournament begins. Any insight?

I haven't actually done this yet because I've been wrapped up in playbyplay data but my plan is to just recreate it based on what's in the json. All you need is ["bracketRegion"], ["bracketRound"], ["away"]["seed"], ["home"]["seed"]

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