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LOL eSports API

Unofficial documentation to internal APIs for LOL eSports.

Week Schedule

GET /api/programmingWeek/{date}/{timezone}.json
Host: http://na.lolesports.com

ie. /api/programmingWeek/2014-05-19/-0700.json

Parameters

Note: All parameters need to be wrapped in parameters[param] scope.

Name Description Type
week Week number in tournament to return matches number
tournament Tournament ID to search within number
expand_matches Include to include rich match meta data string

Tournamnent

    GET /api/programming/{block_id}.json
    Host: http://na.lolesports.com

ex. /api/programming/1855.json?expand_matches=1
{
    "blockId": "1773",
    "dateTime": "2014-05-20T15:00:00+00:00",
    "tickets": " ",
    "matches": {
        "2291": {
            "dateTime": "2014-05-20T15:00Z",
            "matchName": "Fnatic vs SK Gaming",
            "winnerId": "67",
            "matchId": "2291",
            "url": "/tourney/match/2291",
            "maxGames": "1",
            "isLive": false,
            "isFinished": "1",
            "tournament": {
                "id": "102",
                "name": "EU Summer Split",
                "round": "1"
            },
            "contestants": {
                "blue": {
                    "id": "68",
                    "name": "Fnatic",
                    "logoURL": "/sites/default/files/styles/grid_medium_square/public/fnaticlogo.png?itok=1C-vza-C",
                    "acronym": "FNC",
                    "wins": 0,
                    "losses": 1
                },
                "red": {
                    "id": "67",
                    "name": "SK Gaming",
                    "logoURL": "/sites/default/files/styles/grid_medium_square/public/sk-white.png?itok=Z75PKCOL",
                    "acronym": "SK",
                    "wins": 1,
                    "losses": 0
                }
            },
            "gamesInfo": {
                "game0": {
                    "id": "2774",
                    "winnerId": "67"
                }
            },
            "liveStreams": false,
            "polldaddyId": "8011364:36412083:36412084"
        }
    },
    "leagueId": "2",
    "tournamentId": "102",
    "significance": "0",
    "tbdTime": "0",
    "leagueColor": "#CA3B3B",
    "week": "1",
    "body": [],
    "label": "EU Summer Split - Week 1"
}

Parameters

Name Description Type
expand_matches Include to include rich match meta data string

Tournament Week Schedule

GET /api/programming.json?parameters[method]=all
Host: http://na.lolesports.com

[
    {
        "blockId": "1773",
        "dateTime": "2014-05-20T15:00:00+00:00",
        "tickets": " ",
        "matches": {
            "2291": {
                "dateTime": "2014-05-20T15:00Z",
                "matchName": "Fnatic vs SK Gaming",
                "winnerId": "67",
                "matchId": "2291",
                "url": "/tourney/match/2291",
                "maxGames": "1",
                "isLive": false,
                "isFinished": "1",
                "tournament": {
                    "id": "102",
                    "name": "EU Summer Split",
                    "round": "1"
                },
                "contestants": {
                    "blue": {
                        "id": "68",
                        "name": "Fnatic",
                        "logoURL": "/sites/default/files/styles/grid_medium_square/public/fnaticlogo.png?itok=1C-vza-C",
                        "acronym": "FNC",
                        "wins": 0,
                        "losses": 1
                    },
                    "red": {
                        "id": "67",
                        "name": "SK Gaming",
                        "logoURL": "/sites/default/files/styles/grid_medium_square/public/sk-white.png?itok=Z75PKCOL",
                        "acronym": "SK",
                        "wins": 1,
                        "losses": 0
                    }
                },
                "gamesInfo": {
                    "game0": {
                        "id": "2774",
                        "winnerId": "67"
                    }
                },
                "liveStreams": false,
                "polldaddyId": "8011364:36412083:36412084"
            }
        },
        "leagueId": "2",
        "tournamentId": "102",
        "significance": "0",
        "tbdTime": "0",
        "leagueColor": "#CA3B3B",
        "week": "1",
        "body": [],
        "label": "EU Summer Split - Week 1"
    }
]

Parameters

Note: All parameters need to be wrapped in parameters[param] scope.

Name Description Type
week Week number in tournament to return matches number
tournament Tournament ID to search within number
expand_matches Include to include rich match meta data string

Champions

GET /cdn/4.7.16/data/en_US/champion.json
Host: http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com

{
  format: '',
  type: 'champion',
  version: '',
  data: {
    'Name': {
      blurb: 'string blurb',
      id: 'Name',
      image: 
    }
  }
}
@lason33
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lason33 commented Jun 28, 2016

Why some examples are not working?
http://na.lolesports.com/api/programmingWeek/2014-05-19/-0700.json for example...

@rahulmanuwas
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Hi @lason33 the urls have changed now. Instead of [http://na.lolesports.com/api/programmingWeek/2014-05-19/-0700.json] you can try [http://2015.na.lolesports.com/api/programmingWeek/2014-05-19/-0700.json]

@matthewdavies27
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Thank you!

@dataidroj
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Hi! Is there any way to catch the information of the current season?

Thank you!

@nko12
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nko12 commented Nov 25, 2016

The Team and Player endpoints don't appear to be working.

http://2015.na.lolesports.com/api/player/84.json
http://2015.na.lolesports.com/api/team/3656.json

Making a GET requests to these two example urls get me a json response in the correct formats, but they have all empty and null data. For example, the response from the team endpoint using that example url yields the following:

{
  "name": null,
  "bio": null,
  "noPlayers": null,
  "roster": [],
  "logoUrl": "http://2015.na.lolesports.com/",
  "profileUrl": "http://2015.na.lolesports.com/node/",
  "teamPhotoUrl": "http://2015.na.lolesports.com/",
  "acronym": null
}

Any ideas or anything I can do? I could really use these APIs for a group project I have next week.

@Neuron64
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Neuron64 commented Feb 27, 2017 •
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Java-wrapper for League of Legends' eSports API : https://github.com/hubesports/lol-esports-api-connector

@mikesetzer
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Are these all still working?

@jimmycheung2481
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I'm curious as well. Is this example still working, and if not, do you know of any working Esports APIs?

@Neuron64
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Neuron64 commented Apr 7, 2017 •
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@podfog @mikesetzer Yes, this API works.

@Tarkfen
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Tarkfen commented Apr 29, 2017

Hi,
Is the URL are change again ? I've problem to get response in JSON from this API :/

@miggs96
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miggs96 commented Nov 23, 2017

Is this api still up to date?

@shangdrk
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For people wondering whether this API is still up to date, there is no point in documenting the API in so much detail due to the risk of Riot changing their API. After all, this is not public API and Riot has no intention of making it backwards compatible. If you want to figure out the latest API endpoints, just go on lolesports.com, find an example match and monitor all XHR calls in your browser's developer console. That should tell you enough about how to call their up-to-date API

@Tzula
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Tzula commented Feb 26, 2018

not working anymore

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ghost commented Sep 14, 2018

None of those works

@PandaXcentric
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Hey, it seems like this api is completely broken, I went and re-implemented what I could of it though in my repo.

https://github.com/PandaXcentric/game_apis

it's the RiotEsports rest client. you can make tickets for any extra functionality and I can see if it's possible. Hopefully this helps anyone who still wants some of the functionality this repo had.

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