# Highlightly

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/highlightly/  
**Website:** https://highlightly.net/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 36.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Paid · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **Highlightly Catalog API** — The Catalog API from Highlightly — 4 operation(s) for catalog.
- **Highlightly Highlights API** — The Highlights API from Highlightly — 3 operation(s) for highlights.
- **Highlightly Matches API** — The Matches API from Highlightly — 6 operation(s) for matches.
- **Highlightly Odds API** — The Odds API from Highlightly — 3 operation(s) for odds.
- **Highlightly Standings API** — The Standings API from Highlightly — 1 operation(s) for standings.
- **Highlightly Statistics API** — The Statistics API from Highlightly — 5 operation(s) for statistics.
- **Highlightly Teams API** — The Teams API from Highlightly — 2 operation(s) for teams.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Highlightly Agentic Access** — 24 operations

## Security (2)

- **Highlightly Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Highlightly Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Highlightly Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Sports, Sports Data, Live Scores, Odds, Highlights

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/highlightly/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.