TheSportsDB API

Name: TheSportsDB API
Brand: TheSportsDB API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecSocial MediaSocial Publishingnone35 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Programmatically search teams, search events. Covers 35 operations.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the TheSportsDB API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the TheSportsDB API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fthesportsdb.com%2Fthesportsdb" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fthesportsdb.com%2Fthesportsdb" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with TheSportsDB API.

Search Teams

Lookup League

Integrate TheSportsDB API into automated workflows

Query and filter TheSportsDB API records by parameters

GET STARTED

Start building with TheSportsDB API

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View OpenAPI Document

Use Cases

Patterns agents use TheSportsDB API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Social Media Operations

Use the TheSportsDB API to perform social media operations programmatically. The API provides 35 endpoints covering core functionality including search teams, search events, search players.

Call GET /searchteams.php to search teams

Automated V1 API Search Management

Automate v1 API search operations by combining multiple TheSportsDB API endpoints. Agents can search events and then search players in a single workflow.

Call GET /searchevents.php to search events, then verify the result

AI Agent Integration via Jentic

AI agents discover and call TheSportsDB API endpoints through Jentic without managing credentials directly. An agent searches for the required operation by intent, receives the matching endpoint schema, and executes the call with Jentic-managed authentication. This eliminates the need to read API documentation or handle none tokens manually.

Search Jentic for 'search teams', load the operation schema, and execute with Jentic-managed credentials

Key Endpoints

35 endpoints — this api allows you to search for sports teams by their name.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/searchteams.php

Search Teams

GET

/searchevents.php

Search Events

GET

/searchplayers.php

Search Players

GET

/searchvenues.php

Search Venues

GET

/lookupleague.php

Lookup League

GET

/lookuptable.php

Lookup Table

GET

/lookupteam.php

Lookup Team

GET

/lookupequipment.php

Lookup Equipment

GET

/searchteams.php

Search Teams

GET

/searchevents.php

Search Events

GET

/searchplayers.php

Search Players

GET

/searchvenues.php

Search Venues

GET

/lookupleague.php

Lookup League

GET

/lookuptable.php

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring TheSportsDB by hand means dropping your key into the base path (the key sits in the URL as /api/v1/json/{api-key}), stitching together its many search and lookup routes, and handling your own retries. Through Jentic you install once, import TheSportsDB from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

TheSportsDB is read-only search and lookup, so scope it by operations: limit the agent to the calls it needs, such as searching teams or looking up a league table, and leave out any route you do not want it using. Every operation you credit it with stays inside that allowed set.

Credential isolation

Your TheSportsDB key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'search for a team' or 'get a league table', and Jentic returns the matching TheSportsDB operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using TheSportsDB API through Jentic.

What authentication does the TheSportsDB API use?

The TheSportsDB API uses no authentication. Through Jentic, these credentials are stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, so raw secrets never enter the agent context.

Can I search teams with the TheSportsDB API?

Yes. Use the GET /searchteams.php endpoint. The API returns structured JSON responses that agents can parse and act on directly.

What are the rate limits for the TheSportsDB API?

Rate limits are not specified in the OpenAPI spec. Check the vendor documentation for current limits. Through Jentic, rate limiting is handled automatically with retry logic built into the execution layer.

How do I search teams through Jentic?

Install the Jentic SDK with pip install jentic, authenticate through Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer, then search for 'search teams'. Jentic returns the matching TheSportsDB API operation with its input schema. Load the schema and execute the call - credentials are injected automatically.

How many endpoints does the TheSportsDB API have?

The TheSportsDB API exposes 35 endpoints covering v1 API search, v1 API lookup, v1 API list operations.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the TheSportsDB API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which TheSportsDB operations and credentials the agent can touch. TheSportsDB is read-only search and lookup, so you scope it by operation: allow only the calls the agent needs, such as GET /searchteams.php to search teams or GET /lookuptable.php to look up a league table, and leave out any route you do not want it using. Only the operations you grant stay inside that allowed set.

TheSportsDB API

Connect the TheSportsDB API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with TheSportsDB API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs