Editorial Content API

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For media use only. Use of this API is prohibited for betting clients.

Introduction

Sportradar’s Editorial Content API provides in-depth news coverage for all major US sports and international soccer leagues.

Content is broken down into two feeds: News and Analysis. News returns the latest factual information, which may include statistics, quotes, injuries, and/or transactions. Analysis feeds are dedicated to previews and recaps of games and important events.

An extra Premium package is also available for select sports. This upgrade offers the same editorial content, but also includes image assets that are linked within the articles. Our Coverage document illustrates which sports can include Editorial Images.

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Redirects
You must be able to follow 302 redirects to retrieve all of our content.

Integration Resources

Postman Workspace

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Run in Postman
Our full Media API suite—including the Editorial Content collection—lives in our public Postman workspace. Fork or follow any collection to get updates automatically.

Schema Download

Open the zip file below to access our entire Images API XSD schema.

Content v3 Schema

MCP Server

The Sportradar Editorial Content MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementation that bridges AI assistants directly to our Editorial API feeds. It allows LLMs to use standardized tools to fetch our sports data, helping to power your applications, assist in coding, and streamlining your integration.

For detailed instructions on how to set up and use this integration, visit our MCP Server documentation.

Editorial Image Retrieval Sample

To find an image from Super Bowl LVI:

Reference the Coverage document to verify Premium content is available for the NFL.
Ensure you have the correct access (AP NFL Premium Content) to retrieve this image. You can view all of your products in our Account section. Trial access will require a t in the access_level parameter; production access will use a p.
Call either the News or Analysis feed for the desired date (e.g. 2022/02/14) and with ap_premium in the provider parameter.

https://api.sportradar.us/content-nfl-t3/ap_premium/news/2022/02/12/all.xml

https://api.sportradar.us/content-nfl-t3/ap_premium/analysis/events/2022/02/14/all.xml=**your_api_key**

Locate the asset id and/or link for an image. You can reference the description element for a description of each image.

<assets>
        <asset id="2dda4b2e-bbd0-4ce9-b1d3-185524d412cd" created="2022-02-14T03:47:49+00:00" updated="2022-02-14T03:47:55+00:00">
            <title>
                <![CDATA[APTOPIX Rams Bengals Super Bowl Football]]>
        
            </title>
            <description>
                <![CDATA[Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp (10) eyes a touchdown pass in the end zone as Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Eli Apple (20) attempts to tackle during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 56 football game, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)]]>
        
            </description>
            <links>
                <link width="4538" height="3025" href="/assets/2022/2/13/2dda4b2e-bbd0-4ce9-b1d3-185524d412cd/original.jpg"/>
                <link width="1000" height="667" href="/assets/2022/2/13/2dda4b2e-bbd0-4ce9-b1d3-185524d412cd/h1000-max-resize.jpg"/>
            </links>
            <refs>
                <ref name="Apple, Eli" type="profile" sport="nfl" sportradar_id="72a42703-19b7-417c-87ce-344fd792f5ca">
                    <entity_id origin="SR" id="sr:player:986907" sport="nfl"/>
                    <entity_id origin="SD" id="72a42703-19b7-417c-87ce-344fd792f5ca" sport="nfl"/>
                </ref>
                <ref name="Cincinnati Bengals" type="organization" sport="nfl" sportradar_id="ad4ae08f-d808-42d5-a1e6-e9bc4e34d123" sportsdata_id="CIN">
                    <entity_id origin="SR" id="sr:competitor:4416" sport="nfl"/>
                    <entity_id origin="SD" id="ad4ae08f-d808-42d5-a1e6-e9bc4e34d123" alt_id="CIN" sport="nfl"/>
                </ref>
                <ref name="Kupp, Cooper" type="profile" sport="nfl" sportradar_id="2806e915-c46f-492f-8a29-71d3a85e5620">
                    <entity_id origin="SR" id="sr:player:1129803" sport="nfl"/>
                    <entity_id origin="SD" id="2806e915-c46f-492f-8a29-71d3a85e5620" sport="nfl"/>
                </ref>
                <ref name="LA at CIN (NFL - 2021 PST Week 4 - 2/13/2022)" type="event" sport="nfl" sportradar_id="268bf613-7ecf-4f52-a122-4c2d314d9ccc">
                    <entity_id origin="SR" id="sr:match:31840829" sport="nfl"/>
                    <entity_id origin="SD" id="268bf613-7ecf-4f52-a122-4c2d314d9ccc" sport="nfl"/>
                </ref>
                <ref name="Los Angeles Rams" type="organization" sport="nfl" sportradar_id="2eff2a03-54d4-46ba-890e-2bc3925548f3" sportsdata_id="LA">
                    <entity_id origin="SR" id="sr:competitor:4387" sport="nfl"/>
                    <entity_id origin="SD" id="2eff2a03-54d4-46ba-890e-2bc3925548f3" alt_id="LA" sport="nfl"/>
                </ref>
            </refs>
        </asset>

Select the size of the image desired within the link attribute and use this href file_name in your next call to the Editorial Image endpoint.

https://api.sportradar.us/content-nfl-t3/ap_premium/assets/2022/2/13/0de668e5-c3a8-4ed5-88e9-2a99a4be98e9/h1000-max-resize.jpg

The image from Super Bowl LVI is downloaded (News, Analysis).

For pre-built requests for all of our Content collections, feel free to browse and fork our Postman workspace: