Highlightly

Highlightly is a real-time sports data and highlights API covering football, basketball, American football, hockey, baseball, cricket, rugby, volleyball, and handball across 950+ leagues. Its REST APIs serve live scores, matches, standings, team and player statistics, head-to-head records, odds, and on-demand video highlight clips, available directly via highlightly.net hosts or through RapidAPI.

Highlightly publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Highlights API, Matches API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Sports, Sports Data, Live Scores, Odds, and Highlights.

Highlightly’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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36.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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7 APIs

Sports Sports Data Live Scores Odds Highlights

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 36.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Highlightly Rate Limits

7 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: highlightly
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/highlightly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Highlightly
kind: company
description: Highlightly is a real-time sports data and highlights API covering football, basketball, American football, hockey,
  baseball, cricket, rugby, volleyball, and handball across 950+ leagues. Its REST APIs serve live scores, matches, standings,
  team and player statistics, head-to-head records, odds, and on-demand video highlight clips, available directly via highlightly.net
  hosts or through RapidAPI.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Paid · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/highlightly.png
tags:
- Sports
- Sports Data
- Live Scores
- Odds
- Highlights
created: '2026-06-25'
modified: '2026-06-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-catalog-api
  name: Highlightly Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from Highlightly — 4 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-highlights-api
  name: Highlightly Highlights API
  description: The Highlights API from Highlightly — 3 operation(s) for highlights.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Highlights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-highlights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-matches-api
  name: Highlightly Matches API
  description: The Matches API from Highlightly — 6 operation(s) for matches.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Matches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-matches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-odds-api
  name: Highlightly Odds API
  description: The Odds API from Highlightly — 3 operation(s) for odds.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Odds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-odds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-standings-api
  name: Highlightly Standings API
  description: The Standings API from Highlightly — 1 operation(s) for standings.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Standings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-standings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-statistics-api
  name: Highlightly Statistics API
  description: The Statistics API from Highlightly — 5 operation(s) for statistics.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Statistics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-statistics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
- aid: highlightly:highlightly-teams-api
  name: Highlightly Teams API
  description: The Teams API from Highlightly — 2 operation(s) for teams.
  humanURL: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  baseURL: https://sports.highlightly.net
  tags:
  - Team
  tags_raw:
  - Teams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/highlightly-teams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://highlightly.net/documentation/football/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/highlightly.opencollection.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/highlightly-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/highlightly-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/highlightly-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/highlightly
- type: Website
  url: https://highlightly.net/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://highlightly.net/sport-api/documentation/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/highlightly-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/highlightly-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/highlightly-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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