5DollarFootballAPI Countries API
The country master referenced by league and team records.
OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: 5DollarFootballAPI — Football Data Countries API
version: 1.0.0
summary: 'Football (soccer) data: live scores, fixtures, standings, corner and card statistics, and odds.'
description: 'The 5DollarFootballAPI is a read-only REST API. Every response is JSON with a top-level "success" flag. All timestamps are UTC (ISO-8601). The base URL is https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1.
Authenticate every request with your API key in an Authorization header: `Authorization: Bearer fb_live_your_key`. You can also send it as `X-API-Key`. Get a key by creating a free account — no card required. Keys are shown once; store them securely and never embed them in public client-side code.
Each plan has a per-minute rate window — short parallel bursts are fine as long as the minute total holds, and there are no daily caps or monthly pools. Every response includes `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset` for the current window. When you exceed the limit you get HTTP 429 with a `Retry-After` header — back off and retry.
List endpoints accept `page` (default 1) and `per_page` (default 50, max 100), and return a `pagination` object: `{ page, per_page, count, has_more }`. Keep requesting the next page while `has_more` is true. The underlying set can change between two page requests (a match kicks off or finishes); for the volatile live view, request `status=live` with a large `per_page` (up to 500) so a single page holds everything.
Errors return `{ "success": 0, "error": { ... } }` with an HTTP status. The error object has a machine-readable `type` and `code`, a human `message`, an optional `param`, a `doc_url`, and a `request_id` to quote in support. We never return a silent `200` with empty data for a missing resource — you get a proper 404.'
termsOfService: https://5dollarfootballapi.com/terms
contact:
name: 5DollarFootballAPI support
url: https://5dollarfootballapi.com/contact
email: contact@5dollarfootballapi.com
servers:
- url: https://api.5dollarfootballapi.com/v1
description: Production
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- apiKeyHeader: []
tags:
- name: countries
description: The country master referenced by league and team records.
paths:
/countries:
get:
operationId: countries
summary: List countries
description: The country master referenced by league and team country_id.
tags:
- countries
parameters:
- name: search
in: query
required: false
description: Match on country name.
schema:
type: string
- name: lang
in: query
required: false
description: Localize country names (21 languages besides English, e.g. zh-cn, zh-tw, ja, es, de, pt). Unrecognized non-country rows fall back to English.
schema:
type: string
- name: page
in: query
required: false
description: Pagination.
schema:
type: integer
- name: per_page
in: query
required: false
description: Pagination.
schema:
type: integer
responses:
'200':
description: Success
headers:
X-RateLimit-Limit:
description: Requests allowed in the current window.
schema:
type: integer
X-RateLimit-Remaining:
description: Requests left in the current window.
schema:
type: integer
X-RateLimit-Reset:
description: Unix timestamp when the window resets.
schema:
type: integer
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessEnvelope'
example:
success: 1
data:
- id: 14
name: England
continent_id: 3
- id: 26
name: Spain
continent_id: 3
- id: 7
name: Brazil
continent_id: 5
pagination:
page: 1
per_page: 50
count: 3
has_more: true
'400':
description: Invalid parameter.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
'401':
description: Missing or invalid API key.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
'403':
description: The resource is outside your plan.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
headers:
Retry-After:
description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
schema:
type: integer
'500':
description: Unexpected server error.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
externalDocs:
description: Endpoint reference
url: https://5dollarfootballapi.com/docs/countries
components:
schemas:
SuccessEnvelope:
type: object
description: Every successful response. `data` is the endpoint payload — see the example on each operation. List endpoints add `pagination`.
required:
- success
- data
properties:
success:
type: integer
const: 1
data:
description: 'Endpoint payload: an object, or an array of objects on list endpoints.'
oneOf:
- type: object
- type: array
items:
type: object
pagination:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
Pagination:
type: object
description: Returned by list endpoints. Keep requesting pages while `has_more` is true.
properties:
page:
type: integer
per_page:
type: integer
count:
type: integer
description: Rows on this page.
has_more:
type: boolean
ErrorEnvelope:
type: object
description: Every error response. The status code and `error.code` identify the failure; `message` is for humans.
required:
- success
- error
properties:
success:
type: integer
const: 0
error:
type: object
required:
- type
- code
- message
properties:
type:
type: string
description: Error family, e.g. authentication_error.
code:
type: string
description: Machine-readable code, e.g. missing_api_key.
message:
type: string
param:
type:
- string
- 'null'
description: The parameter at fault, when one applies.
doc_url:
type: string
request_id:
type: string
description: Quote this in support requests.
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: 'Send your key as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`.'
apiKeyHeader:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: X-API-Key
description: Alternative to the Authorization header.
externalDocs:
description: Full documentation
url: https://5dollarfootballapi.com/docs