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ESPN Hidden Scoreboard API (Unofficial)

ESPN Hidden Scoreboard API (Unofficial) is a rest api from ESPN (Disney / ESPN Enterprises, LLC) providing sports data. ESPN's undocumented public JSON scoreboard endpoints serve live and scheduled scores, game status, schedules, and box-score data across 20+ sports with no API key. A Polymarket bot can use it as a fast, free live-score signal to resolve game-outcome markets and track in-game state for NBA/NFL/MLB/soccer/tennis.

At a glance

ProviderESPN (Disney / ESPN Enterprises, LLC)
TypeREST API
CategorySports
Real-timeNo — request/response
AuthNone — open endpoint
PricingFree (unofficial, no key)

What data it provides

  • Live & final scores with per-period linescores (e.g. quarter-by-quarter)
  • Game status: clock, period, state (pre/in/post), final flag
  • Schedules and matchups by date with venue/broadcast details
  • Team metadata, abbreviations, logos, records, and series standings
  • Betting odds/lines and win probabilities via related odds/probabilities endpoints
  • Play-by-play and player leaders (points, rebounds, assists) via plays endpoint

Features

  • No authentication or API key required for scoreboard endpoints
  • Coverage of 17 sports across 139 leagues (NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, tennis ATP/WTA, golf, MMA, etc.)
  • No officially published rate limits; excessive requests may be throttled/blocked, so caching is advised
  • Near-real-time updates via polling (no push/websocket); low-latency JSON
  • Unofficial and undocumented by ESPN — endpoints and schemas can change without notice
  • Community-documented endpoints (Public-ESPN-API repo, gists) serve as the de facto reference

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