Rugby / Livescores

Get Live Scores

Retrieve every fixture in play right now for competitions with live coverage, with the score, tries and match minute.

GET/v1/rugby/livescores

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription

x-api-keystringRequiredYour API key, sent as a header.

competition_idintegerOptionalFilter by competition ID.

team_idintegerOptionalFilter by team ID.

pageintegerOptionalPage number. Default 1, 50 per page.

Response

dataarray<Fixture>
Fixtures currently in play.
idinteger
Unique fixture ID.
competitionobject
id and name.
seasoninteger
Season year.
datestring · ISO 8601
Kick-off time in UTC.
statusobject
short, long and live minute.
homeobject
Home team: id, name, score and tries.
awayobject
Away team: id, name, score and tries.
venueobject
Stadium name and city.
metaobject
page, per_page and total.

Status codes

200Live fixtures returned
400Invalid parameter
401Missing or invalid API key
429Rate limit reached

Try it out

1curl -G "https://api.gosportsapi.com/v1/rugby/livescores" \
2  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
3  -d competition_id=6

200 OKapplication/json

1{
2  "data": [
3    {
4      "id": 71903,
5      "competition": { "id": 6, "name": "Six Nations" },
6      "season": 2027,
7      "date": "2027-02-05T20:15:00Z",
8      "status": { "short": "LIVE", "long": "Second half", "minute": 58 },
9      "home": { "id": 11, "name": "Ireland", "score": 24, "tries": 3 },
10      "away": { "id": 14, "name": "France", "score": 17, "tries": 2 },
11      "venue": { "name": "Aviva Stadium", "city": "Dublin" }
12    }
13  ],
14  "meta": { "page": 1, "per_page": 50, "total": 3 }
15}

API Information

Data freshness: ~30 seconds
Recommended polling: 60 seconds
Request cost: 1 request
Required plan: [Plan]+