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Gain insights into using API-Football in Python to retrieve soccer data, including setting up an account, using endpoints, and integrating widgets into applications or websites.

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​​This course is a hands-on guide for programmatically using API-Football to retrieve the required association football (soccer) data. Here, you’ll learn about the different resources that API-Football provides, including endpoints and widgets. 

You’ll review the basics, like setting up an account and getting the required API key. Then, you’ll learn about different endpoints and how to use each one. You’ll also learn about widgets and how to use them directly in any application or website.

Getting Soccer Data with API-Football in Python

We can retrieve information on fixtures using the **fixtures endpoint**. This endpoint is updated every 15 seconds. The base URI for this endpoint is `https://v3.football.api-sports.io/fixtures`.
## Query parameters
Following are the query parameters for the fixtures endpoint:

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## Valid statuses for the fixtures endpoint
Below is the list of valid statuses that can be used in the fixtures endpoint:


We can retrieve information on fixtures using the **fixtures endpoint**. This endpoint is updated every 15 seconds. The base URI for this endpoint is `https://v3.football.api-sports.io/fixtures`.
# Query parameters
Following are the query parameters for the fixtures endpoint:

# Valid statuses for the fixtures endpoint
Below is the list of valid statuses that can be used in the fixtures endpoint:


Learn how to use the fixtures endpoint to get information about fixtures.

Parameters	Type	Category	Description
`id`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the fixture.
`live`	string	optional	The value of this parameter will be `all` if we want the stats of all live fixtures and will be the ID of the league if we're going to retrieve stats for some specific league.
`date`	string	optional	This is the date of the fixture we want to see. The format is "YYYY-MM-DD".
`league`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the league we want fixtures from. This ID can be obtained using the leagues endpoint.
`season`	integer	optional	This is the year we want to see the fixtures for. The format is "YYYY".
`team`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the team we want fixtures for. This ID can be obtained using the teams endpoint.
`last`	integer	optional	This indicates the number of past fixtures we want to see the stats for. It should be a 2 digit integer.
`next`	integer	optional	This indicates the number of future fixtures we want to see the information for. It should be a 2 digit integer.
`from`	string	optional	This is the start date. The format is "YYYY-MM-DD".
`to`	string	optional	This is the end date. The format is "YYYY-MM-DD".
`round`	string	optional	This is the round number of the fixture we want to see the stats for. The number of rounds can be obtained from the rounds endpoint.
`status`	string	optional	This indicates the status of the fixtures. The list of valid statuses is below this table.
`timezone`	string	optional	This is the time zone we want to see the fixtures for. Valid time zones can be obtained using the timezone endpoint.

Introduction

Endpoints

Endpoints: Teams

Endpoints: Standings

Endpoints: Fixtures

Endpoints: Players

Widgets

Conclusion

Fixtures

Query parameters

Valid statuses for the fixtures endpoint