GET/api/v1/competition/rules

List competition formats

Basic data packageactivebetacoreAvailable (scoped)

Description

Returns all competition formats, with incremental updates by timestamp.

1. First full sync: page through everything with the id parameter.
2. Afterwards: fetch what changed with the time parameter (suggested frequency: once a minute).

Access

Request: GET https://api.sports.csap.ai/api/v1/competition/rules
Auth: Header X-API-Key: <your key> (Authorization: Bearer <key> also works; ?key= is still accepted but discouraged, because the key ends up in URLs and logs)
External keys: Available (scoped)External keys can call it, but only data inside the open scope is returned.
Rate limits: 3000 per minute · 200000 per day · Set per key (rate_per_min and quota_daily returned by /api/v1/account are authoritative; the numbers above are a trial key's). Beyond them the answer is 429. In addition, heavy requests such as whole-table snapshots and statistics lists without a match id are processed 2 at a time for the whole platform; a request that cannot get a slot receives 429 with Retry-After. Responses do not carry X-RateLimit-* headers for now. See the general guide

Request parameters 3

Parameter	Type	required	Example	Description
id	integer	optional	`287`	Records with id greater than or equal to this value, ordered by id
time	integer	optional		Records updated at or after this time (timestamp), ordered by update time
limit	integer	optional	`2`	Maximum number of rows, default 1000, maximum 1000

Example request

curl "https://api.sports.csap.ai/api/v1/competition/rules?limit=2" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Try it

Example response

Real response with an external key at 09/11/2026, 14:28 UTC: HTTP 200, 2 rows, 154 ms (data cut to 2 rows)

{
  "code": 0,
  "data": [
    {
      "category_id": "1",
      "category_name": "England",
      "comp_id": "17",
      "competition_id": "17",
      "country_id": null,
      "id": 1,
      "kind": null,
      "limit": null,
      "logo_hash": null,
      "logo_url": "http://43.99.60.51:8080/logos/111451bfcfb3f00ac16f90d9240e175ce41561d85fd83baff92a4bcedd73d0a6.webp",
      "max_id": null,
      "max_time": null,
      "min_id": null,
      "min_time": null,
      "name_zh": null,
      "name_zht": null,
      "query": null,
      "season_ids": null,
      "short_name_zh": null,
      "slug": "premier-league",
      "source": "S2",
      "text": null,
      "time": null,
      "type": null,
      "updated_at": 1794127801097,
      "user_count": 1186113,
      "name": "Premier League"
    },
    {
      "category_id": "1",
      "category_name": "England",
      "comp_id": "18",
      "competition_id": "18",
      "country_id": null,
      "id": 2,
      "kind": null,
      "limit": null,
      "logo_hash": null,
      "logo_url": "http://43.99.60.51:8080/logos/93688a52d86dca1ec1fbf0a2103ff23dfa2a6321dee0706fc96555355164416a.webp",
      "max_id": null,
      "max_time": null,
      "min_id": null,
      "min_time": null,
      "name_zh": null,
      "name_zht": null,
      "query": null,
      "season_ids": null,
      "short_name_zh": null,
      "slug": "championship",
      "source": "S2",
      "text": null,
      "time": null,
      "type": null,
      "updated_at": 1794127801098,
      "user_count": 126287,
      "name": "Championship"
    }
  ],
  "message": "success",
  "success": true
}

Response fields 28

category_idstringExample: "1"

category_namestringCategory nameExample: "England"

comp_idstringCompetition idExample: "17"

competition_idstringCompetition idExample: "17"

country_idnullnullableCountry / region id

idintegerRecord id; paging cursor (the id parameter returns records >= this value). In match endpoints it is the platform match id (gmid)Example: 1

kindnullnullableKind

limitnullnullableMaximum number of rows in this response

logo_hashnullnullableSHA-256 of the logo file

logo_urlstringLogo (image address on this platform; empty when there is none)

max_idnullnullableLargest id on this page

max_timenullnullableLatest update time on this page (Unix seconds)

min_idnullnullableSmallest id on this page

min_timenullnullableEarliest update time on this page (Unix seconds)

name_enstringEnglish nameExample: "Premier League"

name_zhnullnullableChinese name

name_zhtnullnullableTraditional Chinese name

querynullnullableQuery info (paging cursor, totals)

season_idsnullnullableList of season ids · example: [8021]

short_name_ennullnullableEnglish short name

short_name_zhnullnullable

slugstringEnglish slug (for URLs)Example: "premier-league"

sourcestringSource code (S1, S2…)Example: "S2"

textnullnullableFormat description

timenullnullableTime / minute

typenullnullableType

updated_atintegerLast update time (UTC, ISO 8601; incremental sync with the time parameter goes by it)Example: 1794127801097

user_countintegerExample: 1186113

Errors

HTTP	message	When
401	`missing API key / unauthorized`	No X-API-Key, or the key is invalid or disabled
400	`bad param …`	Malformed parameter (e.g. id is neither a number nor u<uid>)
301	`match merged into <gmid>`	Queried by an old match id that has been merged into a new gmid: Location points to the new address and the body carries moved_to
404	`not found`	The match / team / competition does not exist, or is outside what this key can see (external keys see only matches inside the open coverage)
429	`rate limit exceeded / daily quota exceeded`	The key's per-minute rate or daily quota is exceeded
429	`server busy, retry later`	The server's concurrency slots are full (only 2 heavy requests at a time); retry after Retry-After seconds
500	`query error`	The query failed on the server; you may retry