ParlayAPI Live API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Parlay Live API
  description: Real-time sports odds aggregation from **33 books and data sources** updated every 2-120 seconds depending on source cadence.
  version: 3.2.0
  x-credit-currency: credits
  x-credit-cost-catalogue-url: /v1/meta/credit-costs
  x-pricing-url: /v1/pricing
  x-usage-url: /v1/usage
  contact:
    name: ParlayAPI support
    url: https://parlay-api.com/support
    email: support@parlay-api.com
  license:
    name: ParlayAPI Terms of Service
    url: https://parlay-api.com/terms
  termsOfService: https://parlay-api.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://parlay-api.com
  description: Production (primary; HTTP/2, TLS 1.3).
- url: https://api.parlay-api.com
  description: Production (high-volume; bypasses Cloudflare edge for trading bots above 30 req/min). Same origin, same auth, same endpoints.
tags:
- name: Live
paths:
  /live:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Page
      description: Serve the live odds dashboard.
      operationId: live_page_live_get
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
  /live/api/data_flow:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Data Flow
      description: 'Per-source freshness for the /live page status strip.


        For each active sportsbook reports the last time we POLLED the

        upstream, not the last time we wrote a price-change row. The two

        differ: change-detection suppresses no-change writes, so

        MAX(timestamp_ms) on prop_snapshots reports the last price MOVE,

        which for many books is much older than the last poll cycle. Using

        poll_pulses (Redis-backed heartbeats, written every poll cycle

        regardless of change-detection) gives the true "last poll" age.


        Falls back to MAX(timestamp_ms) for sources that don''t write pulses

        yet, so we keep the chip visible (with an honest ''fallback: true''

        tag so we can audit which sources still need pulse coverage).


        Cached 5s, public, no auth.'
      operationId: live_data_flow_live_api_data_flow_get
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
  /live/api/sports:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Sports
      description: Active sports with event counts. No auth required. Cached 60s.
      operationId: live_sports_live_api_sports_get
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
  /live/api/games:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Games
      description: Games for a sport with odds preview. Anonymous users get limited books.
      operationId: live_games_live_api_games_get
      parameters:
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Sport
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/game/{event_id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Game Detail
      description: 'Full game detail with all books + props.


        Customer report 2026-05-21: a Scale-tier account hit

        "credits_exhausted" clicking a game card. Two bugs were stacked:


        1) _get_user_api_key (since removed) returned api_key_display, the

        masked 8-char prefix like ''sk_live_...'', NOT the full key. The

        hash of that masked string never matched any stored hash, so

        _get_tier returned None and charge_credits returned False —

        surfaced to the user as "credits_exhausted" but the real failure

        was key lookup.


        2) Charging a credit for the LIVE DASHBOARD didn''t match policy.

        The new /live/api/game/{event_id}/view (the dedicated single-

        game page) is free; the customer dashboard is free to browse.

        Credits are for programmatic API egress, not dashboard reads.


        So this endpoint is now free for any logged-in user, matching the

        new view endpoint''s policy.'
      operationId: live_game_detail_live_api_game__event_id__get
      parameters:
      - name: event_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Event Id
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Sport
      - name: home
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Home
      - name: away
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Away
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/game/{event_id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Game Page
      description: 'Single-game live view for a retail bettor watching the game.


        Server renders just the shell; the page calls

        /live/api/game/{event_id}/view to populate, then opens a WebSocket

        for live updates.'
      operationId: live_game_page_live_game__event_id__get
      parameters:
      - name: event_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Event Id
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/game/{event_id}/view:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Game View Json
      description: 'JSON for the single-game retail live view.


        Anonymous: returns top-3-books table with sharp anchor visible.

        Logged in: full table + props (no credit charge — this is the

        customer-facing pricing view; we charge for API egress, not for

        looking at the dashboard).'
      operationId: live_game_view_json_live_api_game__event_id__view_get
      parameters:
      - name: event_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Event Id
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Sport
      - name: home
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Home
      - name: away
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Away
      - name: history_window_s
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 1800
          minimum: 30
          description: History window for movement calc (default 5 min).
          default: 300
          title: History Window S
        description: History window for movement calc (default 5 min).
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/search:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Search
      description: 'Search teams/players/tournaments across all sports. No auth required.


        Sport-key matching uses the user''s literal query plus a space-to-

        underscore-normalized variant, so ''ITF Kurume'' matches

        ''tennis_itf_women_kurume'' (the sport_key the FD in-play source

        emits for that tournament).


        iter_049 #423: capped at `?limit=` (default 25) so broad-substring

        queries like ''mlb'' don''t blow up trigram-index work. Was previously

        unbounded; high-cardinality queries timed out at 20s.'
      operationId: live_search_live_api_search_get
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 2
          title: Q
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 100
          minimum: 1
          description: 'Max results to return. iter_049 #423: previously unbounded; broad queries like ''mlb'' could time out. Default 25.'
          default: 25
          title: Limit
        description: 'Max results to return. iter_049 #423: previously unbounded; broad queries like ''mlb'' could time out. Default 25.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/command_center:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Command Center
      description: Best-line and book-breadth snapshot for the /live dashboard.
      operationId: live_command_center_live_api_command_center_get
      parameters:
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: Optional sport key
          title: Sport
        description: Optional sport key
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 50
          minimum: 1
          default: 12
          title: Limit
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/pbp:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Pbp
      description: 'Recent play-by-play events for a sport (or specific game). Free, no auth.

        Powers the ''What''s happening'' marquee on the /live page.'
      operationId: live_pbp_live_api_pbp_get
      parameters:
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          description: Sport key, e.g. basketball_nba
          title: Sport
        description: Sport key, e.g. basketball_nba
      - name: event_id
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: Match id; omit for sport-wide
          title: Event Id
        description: Match id; omit for sport-wide
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 20
          minimum: 1
          default: 5
          title: Limit
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/disagreement:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Disagreement
      description: 'Top cross-book line disagreements right now, across all sports.

        Free + no auth (showcase teaser). Updates every ~15s.


        Powers the ''Books disagree right now'' sidebar on /live.

        Full per-event detail with all books still requires the Pro+

        /v1/sports/{sport_key}/live/disagreement endpoint.


        Uses singleflight via cached_call so concurrent misses do not fan

        out to N DB queries (the thundering-herd that pinned Postgres

        earlier tonight).'
      operationId: live_disagreement_live_api_disagreement_get
      parameters:
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 25
          minimum: 1
          description: Top-N disagreements across all sports
          default: 8
          title: Limit
        description: Top-N disagreements across all sports
      - name: min_deviation_pct
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: number
          maximum: 1
          minimum: 0
          description: Min cross-book deviation to surface
          default: 0.025
          title: Min Deviation Pct
        description: Min cross-book deviation to surface
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/sparkline:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Sparkline
      description: 'Recent line history for a single game, suitable for a tiny

        inline sparkline on the live game card. Returns one point per minute

        of moneyline (or h2h) movement across all books, averaged.

        Free + no auth. Updates every 30s.'
      operationId: live_sparkline_live_api_sparkline_get
      parameters:
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Sport
      - name: home_team
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Home Team
      - name: away_team
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          title: Away Team
      - name: minutes
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 180
          minimum: 5
          default: 30
          title: Minutes
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /live/api/best-books:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Live Best Books
      description: 'Rank sportsbooks by how good their prices have actually been.


        Over the look-back window we sample each book''s price per game at 15-minute

        buckets. At every (game, side, bucket) the book(s) holding the best

        available American price are credited a win, and each book''s price is

        scored against the field''s median (consensus). The response is a

        leaderboard so a bettor can see, for this sport and window, which book to

        line-shop first.


        v1 covers h2h (moneyline) from odds_snapshots, which carries ~24 books

        directly (DraftKings, FanDuel, Pinnacle, BetRivers, ...). Spreads, totals,

        props, and per-game / per-book-type slices are the next increments.'
      operationId: live_best_books_live_api_best_books_get
      parameters:
      - name: sport
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          description: Sport key, e.g. baseball_mlb (family umbrellas like soccer are expanded).
          title: Sport
        description: Sport key, e.g. baseball_mlb (family umbrellas like soccer are expanded).
      - name: market
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          description: Bet type. v1 supports h2h (moneyline); spreads/totals/props coming.
          default: h2h
          title: Market
        description: Bet type. v1 supports h2h (moneyline); spreads/totals/props coming.
      - name: window_hours
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 336
          minimum: 1
          description: Look-back window in hours (1..336).
          default: 24
          title: Window Hours
        description: Look-back window in hours (1..336).
      - name: home
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: 'Optional: restrict to one game by home team name (case-insensitive substring; orientation-agnostic).'
          title: Home
        description: 'Optional: restrict to one game by home team name (case-insensitive substring; orientation-agnostic).'
      - name: away
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          description: 'Optional: restrict to one game by away team name.'
          title: Away
        description: 'Optional: restrict to one game by away team name.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
  /best-books:
    get:
      tags:
      - Live
      summary: Best Books Page
      description: 'The line-shopping board: which sportsbook prices best, with sport /

        window / bet-type toggles. Consumes /live/api/best-books.'
      operationId: best_books_page_best_books_get
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            text/html:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
      - loc
      - msg
      - type
      title: ValidationError
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-Key
      description: API key passed in the X-API-Key header. Recommended.
    apiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: apiKey
      description: API key passed as the ?apiKey= query parameter. Useful for browser fetch() and webhooks where header control is limited. Equivalent to X-API-Key.
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: APIKey
      description: 'API key passed via Authorization: Bearer <key>. Equivalent to X-API-Key for compatibility with auth libraries that expect bearer tokens.'