Is there a Flashscore API?
Short answer: no — Flashscore does not offer a public API, and its owner Livesport does not sell self-serve data feeds. Here is the situation, and a legitimate way to get the same data.
curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/standings?league=39&type=total
-H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"{
"success": 1,
"data": {
"league_id": 39, "type": "total", "round": 38,
"table": [
{ "position": 1, "team": { "name": "Pyunik Yerevan" }, "played": 36, "win": 24, "draw": 10, "lose": 2, "points": 82 }
]
}
}The short answer
Flashscore (and its regional twins like FlashScore.com, Diretta and Livesport.cz) is a consumer product of Livesport. There is no public API, no developer program and no self-serve feed — data deals happen at the enterprise licensing level, if at all. Everything published as a "Flashscore API" on GitHub or RapidAPI is a scraper of their heavily bot-protected website.
Why the unofficial route fails
- No official API, developer portal or self-serve feed exists — licensing is enterprise-only and not aimed at individual developers
- The site is heavily protected: dynamic markup, obfuscated feeds and bot detection make scrapers expensive to maintain and quick to break
- Automated access violates the site's terms; blocks are routine
- Third-party "Flashscore APIs" resell scraped data with no license, no SLA and no future
The same data, the legitimate way
What people actually want from a Flashscore API is live scores, fixtures, results and standings across many leagues. That is a solved problem with a licensed feed:
| What you want | Our endpoint |
|---|---|
| Live scores across all leagues | GET /v1/fixtures?status=live |
| Today's fixtures & finished results | GET /v1/fixtures?start_time=&end_time= |
| League standings | GET /v1/standings?league=&season= |
| Odds (1X2, Asian handicap, goal line) | GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/odds |
| Corners & cards per match | GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/statistics |
What you can build on instead
Frequently asked questions
No. Flashscore is a consumer app owned by Livesport, and neither offers a public API or self-serve data feed. Data licensing, where it exists, is negotiated enterprise-to-enterprise.
The site's terms prohibit it, and it is one of the more aggressively bot-protected score sites — dynamic markup and obfuscated data feeds mean scrapers break constantly. It is not a foundation you can build a product on.
A licensed football API covering the same ground: real-time scores, fixtures, standings and odds across thousands of competitions. Ours has a free tier (no card) and full coverage from $5/mo.
Skip the scraper. Ship the product.
A licensed football API with live scores, stats and odds — free tier, no card, live in under a minute.