No official API exists — honest answer inside

Is there a LiveScore API?

Short answer: no — LiveScore.com offers no public API or developer programme. Here is what is really available, and what to check before you trust anything that calls itself live.

Get your free API key See pricing

GET /v1/fixtures?status=live

curl https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1/fixtures?status=live
  -H "Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key"

{
  "success": 1,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 197590518,
      "league": { "id": 1, "name": "England Premier League" },
      "teams": { "home": { "name": "Arsenal" }, "away": { "name": "Everton" } },
      "status": "in_play",
      "goals": { "home": 2, "away": 0 },
      "corners": { "home": 6, "away": 2 },
      "cards": { "home": { "yellow": 1, "red": 0 }, "away": { "yellow": 3, "red": 0 } }
    }
  ]
}

The short answer

LiveScore.com is a consumer product, not a data business. Its scores come from feed providers under licence, which is the same reason SofaScore cannot resell theirs: the rights do not extend to redistribution. The endpoints behind the site and app are internal — undocumented, unversioned, and shaped for their front end rather than for you. Building on them means your product breaks whenever their web team ships.

Why the unofficial route fails

No public API, no developer programme, no commercial feed for third parties
The scores are licensed in, so redistribution is not theirs to grant even if they wanted to
Internal endpoints follow the needs of their UI and change without notice or changelog
Bot protection on consumer score sites is aggressive, because scraping is their main abuse vector

The same data, the legitimate way

What people want from a "LiveScore API" is almost always the same short list, and all of it is ordinary API territory:

What you want	Our endpoint
Everything in play right now	`GET /v1/fixtures?status=live`
Today's fixtures and kickoff times	`GET /v1/fixtures`
Goals, corners and cards as they land	`GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/events`
In-play shots, attacks, possession	`GET /v1/fixtures/{id}/statistics`
League table after the results	`GET /v1/standings`

Read the API docs

Worth being straight about latency: we are not a sub-second push feed, and anything at this price that claims to be is worth a second look. Scores update on a short polling cycle, which is right for scoreboards, apps and models — and wrong for in-play trading, where you should be paying for a low-latency feed and will know it.

What you can build on instead

Live Scores API

Poll real-time football scores, in-play status, goals, corners and cards across...

Fixtures API

Fixtures and results by date, league or season, with goals, corners and cards on...

Statistics API

Live match statistics: attacks, dangerous attacks, shots on/off target and posse...

Frequently asked questions

No. LiveScore.com has never offered a public API or developer programme. Its data is licensed from feed providers, which is why it cannot be resold to you even in principle.

Technically people try, and it breaks. The endpoints are internal and unversioned, the bot protection on consumer score sites is active rather than passive, and you get no schema guarantee, no changelog and no recourse when it changes.

Depends what you are building. A scoreboard or an app is fine on a short polling cycle. In-play trading is a different product and needs a low-latency push feed at a different price — be suspicious of anything cheap that claims otherwise.

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.

Get your free API key Read the docs