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| Posted: 05 Mar 2026 11:00 | |||
Posts: 3 Joined: 2026 | I am trying to build a dropdown menu to help me find metadata of events but the v2 event search does not work as expected. For example, i am trying to find this event: https://www.thesportsdb.com/event/2267361-tottenham-hotspur-vs-crystal-palace I would have expected that i can will get a list of events including "tottenham" using a query like this: https://www.thesportsdb.com/api/v2/json/search/event/tottenham but i don't get a single event in return, just a "{"Message":"No data found"}". What is going on? | ||
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| Posted: 05 Mar 2026 11:09 | |||
Posts: 1,147 Joined: 2020 | It is not a fuzzy search, the search term needs to be like the documentation example "/api/v2/json/search/event/fifa_world_cup_2022-12-18_argentina_vs_france". It should contain the league name, date, and then home team vs away team. You can omit the later parts like "/api/v2/json/search/event/fifa_world_cup_2022-12-18" which will provide only matches for the World Cup on that date. As there is no league called 'Tottenham' the result is correct. | ||
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| Posted: 05 Mar 2026 12:11 | |||
Posts: 3 Joined: 2026 | Meh, that's not gonna work for me then. Any chances we can get a "fuzzy search" of teams to look for an event? Happy to start searching from 5 chars if that helps. | ||
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| Posted: 05 Mar 2026 12:12 | |||
Posts: 3 Joined: 2026 | Also, your v1 search does Fuzzy just fine. The problem there is it only returns 2 items - that rarely contains the correct event looking for popular teams. | ||
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