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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

The **standings endpoint** returns the standings for a league or team. The base URI for this endpoint is `https://v3.football.api-sports.io/standings`.
## Query parameters

The query parameters for this endpoint are as follows:

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>The `teams` or `leagues` parameters must be used with the `season` parameter for this endpoint.
## Use cases
### Get standings for a league/cup
The standings endpoint used with the `league` and the `season` parameters provides us the standings in a league for the mentioned season. Click the “Run” button to call this endpoint.

The **standings endpoint** returns the standings for a league or team. The base URI for this endpoint is `https://v3.football.api-sports.io/standings`.
# Query parameters

The query parameters for this endpoint are as follows:

>The `teams` or `leagues` parameters must be used with the `season` parameter for this endpoint.
# Use cases
## Get standings for a league/cup
The standings endpoint used with the `league` and the `season` parameters provides us the standings in a league for the mentioned season. Click the “Run” button to call this endpoint.

Learn about the endpoint which will return the leagues' standings in response.

Parameters	Type	Category	Description
`league`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the league whose standings we want to see. We can get the ID of the league using the leagues endpoint.
`season`	integer	required	This is the year for which we require the standings.
`team`	integer	optional	This is the ID of the team we want the stats for. We can use the teams endpoint to get this ID.

Introduction

Endpoints

Endpoints: Teams

Endpoints: Standings

Endpoints: Fixtures

Endpoints: Players

Widgets

Conclusion

Standings

Query parameters