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API-Sports

Pulls live match data, player statistics, and betting odds into your workflows to automate sports content creation and betting analysis.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native API-Sports integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right API-Sports calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your API-Sports data, across all 67 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke API-Sports access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in API-Sports, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when API-Sports is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach API-Sports.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every API-Sports action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on API-Sports, and when to use it.

Get Fixtures
Use this to retrieve football matches by date, league, or team to identify upcoming or past games.
Get Fixture Events
Pull specific match events like goals, cards, and substitutions after you have the fixture id.
Get Fixture Statistics
Retrieve detailed match stats including possession, shots, and passes for a specific fixture.
Get Fixture Lineups
Pull the starting eleven and substitutes for a match, usually available 20 to 40 minutes before kickoff.
Get Odds
Fetch pre match odds filtered by fixture, league, or bookmaker for betting analysis.
Get In Play Odds
Pull live betting odds for fixtures currently in progress to track real time market shifts.
Get Predictions
Retrieve calculated match predictions for a specific fixture id to compare with market odds.
Get Players
Pull player statistics and profiles using a player id, team, or search string.
Get Teams
Search for teams by name or id to get the necessary identifiers for other league queries.
Get Leagues
Retrieve a list of available competitions, cups, and leagues filtered by country or name.
Get Injuries
Pull a list of currently sidelined or suspended players for a specific team or league.
Get Head to Head
Compare the direct match history between two specific teams using their unique ids.
Get Coaches
Tool to fetch coaches and their career history. use when you need coach info by id, team filter, or name search.
Get Countries
Tool to fetch available countries for league queries. use when filtering by name, code, or search string before retrieving leagues.
Get fixtures events
Tool to get events (goals, cards, substitutions, var, etc.) from a fixture. use when you need detailed event data after confirming the fixture id.
Get Head to Head Fixtures
Tool to get head to head fixtures between two teams. use after determining team ids to compare their direct match history.
Get fixtures players
Tool to get player statistics from a fixture. use when you need detailed per player stats for a specific match. optionally filter by team.
Get Fixtures Rounds
Tool to get the rounds for a league or cup. use after confirming league and season to retrieve available round identifiers (optionally with dates) for filtering fixtures.
Get League Seasons
Tool to get the list of available seasons for all leagues. use when you need season filters for other league endpoints.
Get Odds Bets
Tool to get all available pre match bet types. use when filtering by bet id or searching bet names before fetching odds.
Get Odds Bookmakers
Tool to list all available pre match bookmakers. use when you need to discover or filter bookmakers before fetching odds.
Get Live Odds Bets
Tool to fetch all available bet types for in play odds. use when you need to retrieve bet ids or names (optionally filtering by id or search) before fetching live odds.
Get Players Profiles
Tool to get the list of all available players. use when you need player profiles optionally filtered by id, name search, or page.
Get Players Seasons
Tool to list all available seasons for player statistics. use when building a player statistics query, optionally filtering by a specific player id.
Get Players Teams
Tool to get the list of teams and seasons in which a player played during his career. use after confirming the player id to retrieve club history.
Get Players Top Assists
Tool to get the 20 best players (top assists) for a league or cup. use after confirming league and season.
Get Players Top Scorers
Tool to get the 20 best players (top scorers) for a league or cup. use after confirming league and season.
Get Players Top Yellow Cards
Tool to get the 20 players with the most yellow cards for a league or cup. use after confirming league and season.
Get Sidelined
Tool to get sidelined information (injuries, suspensions, etc.). use when you need current sidelined records filtered by league, season, team, player, or type.
Get team statistics
Tool to get detailed statistics of a team for a given league and season. use after confirming league, season, and team id.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven manages your API Sports requests using a smart queue system that respects the specific limits of your subscription tier. Because API Sports enforces strict requests per minute caps, the agent tracks the number of calls made in the current window and pauses execution if you approach the limit. If a workflow triggers a massive batch of requests, such as pulling statistics for every player in a league, Ceven will stagger those calls to avoid 429 errors. You can configure your workflow to prioritize certain calls, ensuring that live match events are processed before historical data backfills.
Yes. You can build a workflow in Ceven that polls the Get Fixtures Events endpoint at regular intervals for a set of active matches. When the agent detects a new event record, such as a goal or a red card, it can trigger any downstream action like sending a Slack message or posting to X. Since the API provides specific event timestamps, Ceven ensures that notifications are processed in the correct order. For the fastest possible updates, we recommend filtering your requests to only include the specific fixture ids you are tracking.
Lineup data is not available until shortly before the match begins. Typically, API Sports populates the starting eleven and substitutes roughly 20 to 40 minutes before the official kickoff time. In Ceven, you should set up your workflows to trigger a check at the 30 minute mark before the match start time. If the data is not yet available, the agent can be configured to retry every five minutes until the lineup is confirmed, ensuring your content or bets are based on the actual players on the pitch.
Yes, API Sports provides a deep archive of historical data covering more than 15 years. You can use the Get League Seasons endpoint to find the available year ranges for any competition and then pass those season identifiers into the fixtures or player statistics endpoints. Ceven makes this easy by allowing you to build a loop that iterates through multiple seasons to generate long term performance trends or historical comparisons between teams without having to make each request manually.
The most efficient method is using the Get Teams search action. Instead of guessing ids, you can pass a team name or a partial string to the search endpoint. Ceven then extracts the unique team id from the response and stores it in the workflow context. This id is then used as a variable for all subsequent calls, such as pulling fixtures or team statistics. This prevents errors caused by similar team names and ensures you are pulling data for the correct club across different leagues.
Absolutely. The Get Odds endpoint allows you to filter by specific bookmakers or retrieve all available ones. Ceven can pull odds from several providers simultaneously and create a comparison table in a Google Sheet or a database. This is particularly useful for identifying arbitrage opportunities or determining the consensus market price. The agent can be set to run this comparison every few minutes during the pre match window to alert you when a specific bookmaker deviates from the market average.
If you attempt to query a league that is not in the API Sports database, the API returns an empty data array rather than a hard error. Ceven is programmed to handle these empty responses gracefully. Instead of the workflow failing, the agent will recognize that no data was found and can follow a fallback path, such as notifying you that the league is unsupported or searching for a similar competition. You can use the Get Leagues endpoint first to verify coverage before starting a complex data extraction.
API Sports provides match times in UTC by default, which can be confusing for global users. To solve this, Ceven uses the Get Timezone endpoint to fetch the correct offset for your target region. When the agent pulls a fixture time, it automatically applies the timezone conversion so that your alerts and reports show the local time of the match or the local time of your users. This ensures that a 3 PM kickoff in London is correctly reported as 10 AM in New York without manual calculation.

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