CricAPI Players API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CricAPI Cricket Data Fantasy Players API
  description: 'CricAPI (operating as CricketData.org) provides live cricket scores, ball-by-ball updates, match details, player statistics, team rankings, series schedules, and fantasy cricket scorecard data. Coverage spans international and domestic tournaments including ICC events, IPL, T20I, BBL, and PSL. Historical match data is available back to 2000.

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  version: '1.0'
  termsOfService: https://cricketdata.org/
  contact:
    email: contact@cricketdata.org
    url: https://cricketdata.org/contact/
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://cricketdata.org/pricing/
servers:
- url: https://api.cricapi.com/v1
  description: CricAPI v1 production server
security:
- apiKeyQuery: []
tags:
- name: Players
  description: Player listing and search
paths:
  /players:
    get:
      operationId: listPlayers
      summary: All Players List / Search
      description: 'Returns a list of all players in the system along with their country of origin. Supports pagination and optional search by player name.

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      tags:
      - Players
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/apikey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - name: search
        in: query
        description: Search string to filter players by name
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          example: Kohli
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response with players list
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlayersListResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  parameters:
    apikey:
      name: apikey
      in: query
      description: Your subscription API key (GUID format)
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        format: uuid
        example: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
    offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: 'Row offset for pagination. Default page size is 25 items. Use totalRows from the info object to determine if more pages exist.

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      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 0
        minimum: 0
        example: 0
  schemas:
    Player:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          description: Unique identifier for this player
        name:
          type: string
          description: Full name of the player
        country:
          type: string
          description: Country the player belongs to
    ApiInfo:
      type: object
      description: Metadata about the API response including rate limit and pagination info
      properties:
        hitsToday:
          type: integer
          description: Number of API hits made today for the current API key
        hitsLimit:
          type: integer
          description: Daily hit limit for the current API key
        credits:
          type: number
          description: Credits remaining in account (optional)
        server:
          type: integer
          description: ID of the server that served this response
        offsetRows:
          type: integer
          description: Row offset applied to this response
        totalRows:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of rows available for this query
        queryTime:
          type: number
          description: Query execution time in milliseconds
    PlayersListResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - success
          - failure
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Player'
        info:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiInfo'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - failure
        reason:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message
          example: Invalid API Key
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Invalid or missing API key
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            status: failure
            reason: Invalid API Key
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: apikey
      description: 'API key for authentication. Obtained from your CricketData.org account. Format: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx (GUID)

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externalDocs:
  description: CricAPI Developer Documentation
  url: https://cricketdata.org/how-to-use-cricket-data-api.aspx