sportscore

Python client for the free SportScore sports-data API — live scores, match details, standings, top scorers, brackets and player stats across football, basketball, cricket and tennis.

• No API key. CORS-open. Free forever for reasonable usage (~10,000 req / 24h / IP).
• Free in exchange for one thing: a visible "Powered by SportScore" dofollow backlink on any page that renders the data. Commercial / white-label (no attribution) available at sportscore.com/developers/terms/.
• Sync + async, typed, py.typed shipped.

Install

pip install sportscore

Requires Python 3.9+.

Quickstart

Sync

from sportscore import SportScoreClient

with SportScoreClient() as sc:
    matches = sc.get_matches("football", limit=5)
    for m in matches["data"]:
        print(m["home_team"], m["score"], m["away_team"])

    standings = sc.get_standings("football", "premier-league")
    scorers = sc.get_top_scorers("football", "premier-league", limit=10)
    messi = sc.get_player("football", "lionel-messi")

    # Surface the free-tier attribution line anywhere you render the data:
    print(sc.attribution_html())
    # <a href="https://sportscore.com/" rel="dofollow" ...>Powered by SportScore</a>

Async

import asyncio
from sportscore import AsyncSportScoreClient

async def main():
    async with AsyncSportScoreClient() as sc:
        matches = await sc.get_matches("basketball", limit=3)
        print(matches)

asyncio.run(main())

API surface

Every method returns the parsed JSON body from the SportScore API. Non-2xx responses raise SportScoreError with status_code, body, and url attributes.

sport is one of "football", "basketball", "cricket", "tennis".

Configuration

SportScoreClient(
    api_base="https://sportscore.com",
    user_agent="my-app/1.0",
    timeout=15.0,
    http_client=None,  # pass your own httpx.Client if you want pooling
)

No API keys, no required env vars.

Anonymous install-ping (opt-out)

On the first SportScoreClient() instantiation per process, the library fires one fire-and-forget POST to https://sportscore.com/api/mcp/ping/ on a background thread:

{
  "client": "sportscore-py",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "transport": "python",
  "host": "linux",
  "python": "3.12.1"
}

That's the whole payload — no user id, no IP, no cookies, no per-call telemetry. We use it to see rough weekly-active-installs and Python/OS spread so we know what to support. The ping runs on a daemon thread and has a 3 s timeout — it cannot delay your program.

Opt out by setting SPORTSCORE_NO_TELEMETRY=1 in your environment:

export SPORTSCORE_NO_TELEMETRY=1

Attribution — how the free tier works

The service is free in exchange for a visible dofollow backlink to https://sportscore.com/ on any page that renders the returned data. The client ships helpers so the one line of code you need is literally one line:

client.attribution_html()
# <a href="https://sportscore.com/" rel="dofollow" title="Sports data by SportScore">Powered by SportScore</a>

Prefer a pre-designed badge? Pick any of the six variants (dark pill, light pill, minimal, tiny circle, amber accent, stat-block footer) at sportscore.com/developers/#badges.

Full terms: sportscore.com/developers/terms/.

Commercial / white-label removal: api@sportscore.com.

Error handling

from sportscore import SportScoreClient, SportScoreError

with SportScoreClient() as sc:
    try:
        sc.get_standings("football", "made-up-league")
    except SportScoreError as exc:
        print(exc.status_code, exc.body)

Related projects

• sportscore-mcp — the same 8-tool surface exposed as a Model Context Protocol server for Claude, Cursor, Zed, etc.
• OpenAPI spec — full REST spec if you'd rather skip the client altogether.
• Interactive API reference — Redoc-rendered docs with live "Try it" for every endpoint.

Contributing

Bugs, PRs, and example code all welcome: github.com/Backspace-me/sportscore-py.

Run the tests:

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT — client code. Remote API usage is governed by the SportScore API Terms of Use.