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Question about event's "idAPIFootball"


Posted: 16 Aug 2025 20:29
nextmatch
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Hi,
With the event lookup API, e.g: https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v2/json/lookup/event/2265041, the response contains a "idAPIfootball" attribute.
Anyone knows what is it about? Does it have anything to do with https://www.api-football.com under the hood?

Thanks for any information


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Posted: 16 Aug 2025 21:22
curswine
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Hi,
With the event lookup API, e.g: https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v2/json/lookup/event/2265041, the response contains a "idAPIfootball" attribute.
Anyone knows what is it about? Does it have anything to do with https://www.api-football.com under the hood?

Thanks for any information


Yes that is exactly what it is, that is the provider for this website.

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Posted: 19 Aug 2025 10:16

zag
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Hi,
With the event lookup API, e.g: https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v2/json/lookup/event/2265041, the response contains a "idAPIfootball" attribute.
Anyone knows what is it about? Does it have anything to do with https://www.api-football.com under the hood?

Thanks for any information


Yeh its so users can use both our site ID's and Api-Footballs. I know a few people subscribe to both.

We also have the ESPN ID as well for people who wish to cross reference with their hidden API.

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