esports

Esports Data

Keyless, public sources. No API key, no signup.

• Dota 2 → OpenDota (api.opendota.com). Real JSON. Free tier ~60 req/min.
• League of Legends esports → Leaguepedia Cargo (lol.fandom.com). Structured rows. CC-BY-SA — attribute Leaguepedia when you reuse the data.

CRITICAL

• Dota 2 only for match/team/league data (OpenDota). LoL uses Leaguepedia Cargo.
• Leaguepedia is aggressively rate-limited. The throttle comes back as an in-body error (Leaguepedia API error: ...) on an HTTP 200 — not a 4xx. Results are cached ~30 min; don't hammer it. Queries with order_by have been answered with that throttle body every time, so avoid order_by in lol_cargo_query and sort the rows yourself.
• OpenDota has no date filter. get_pro_matches returns the latest pro matches (100 per call at most). For older ones pass the response's next_less_than_match_id as less_than_match_id.
• Match Dota teams on team_id, not name. OpenDota has separate records whose names differ only in case (mouz 161707 from 2013, MOUZ 9338413 now).
• No odds here. Bookmaker odds for esports are not available keyless. For implied-probability signals, use kalshi get_esports_odds --game=cs2 or polymarket get_esports_events.
• Personal use. Third-party ToS apply (OpenDota MIT; Leaguepedia CC-BY-SA).

Quick Start

CLI:

sports-skills esports get_pro_matches --limit=10
sports-skills esports get_pro_teams --limit=10
sports-skills esports get_leagues --tier=premium
sports-skills

Python:

Commands

Leaguepedia Cargo reference

lol_cargo_query needs tables + fields. Common tables (fields vary — verify with a small query first): Tournaments (Name, DateStart, DateEnd, League, Region, Prizepool), MatchSchedule (Team1, Team2, Winner, DateTime_UTC, BestOf), ScoreboardGames, Players, Teams. Full schema: https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Special:CargoTables. Row keys use the field names you asked for (DateTime_UTC), even though Cargo itself returns them with spaces.

Troubleshooting

• Leaguepedia API error: You've exceeded your rate limit → you're being throttled. Wait and retry; the connector caches for ~30 min to help.
• Empty matches/teams from OpenDota → transient; OpenDota is volunteer-run best-effort infra with no SLA. Retry.