Rugby API

The Highlightly Rugby API provides real time rugby data including live scores, video highlights, team statistics, standings, head to head data and last five games.

Coverage spans 100+ competitions, among them the World Cup, Six Nations, the Rugby Championship, Champions Cup, Premiership Rugby, Top 14, Super Rugby, Major League Rugby, the Sevens World Series and women's competitions including WXV.

Base URL

rugby.highlightly.net

Endpoints

18

Format

JSON only

Version

6.2.4

Also available with an All Sports API subscription at sports.highlightly.net/rugby. See base URLs.

Where to start

Read Authentication first, since every request needs an API key. Pagination and limits covers paging and how your plan affects results.

If you want	Start at
Tries, replays and game recaps	Highlights
Schedules and live scores	Matches
Team sheets, venue and referee	Get match by ID
League, pool and group tables	Standings

Finding a competition to query

Matches, highlights, odds and standings are filtered by league. Start from countries to find the code for a territory, then leagues to get the leagueId and the seasons it has data for.

Countries here are not only nations. A continental body such as Europe has its own code, which is how a cross border competition is grouped.

Those values unlock standings, and leagueId alone filters matches, highlights and odds.

Base URLs

Rugby data is available two ways. A Rugby API subscription covers rugby alone. An All Sports API subscription covers rugby and all other Highlightly sports under one key. Either one can be bought directly from Highlightly or through RapidAPI, which gives four base URLs.

Subscription	Platform	Base URL
Rugby API	Highlightly	https://rugby.highlightly.net
Rugby API	RapidAPI	https://rugby-highlights-api.p.rapidapi.com
All Sports API	Highlightly	https://sports.highlightly.net/rugby
All Sports API	RapidAPI	https://sport-highlights-api.p.rapidapi.com/rugby

Every endpoint in this reference is available on all four. On Highlightly, one API key works for every product, and the data returned depends on your subscription to that product. On RapidAPI, each product is separate and needs its own API key.

To call an endpoint, append its path to your base URL. /matches becomes https://rugby.highlightly.net/matches with a Rugby API subscription and https://sports.highlightly.net/rugby/matches with an All Sports API subscription. Parameters, responses and refresh intervals are the same on both, and every endpoint page shows both routes.

Your plan affects the data retrieved. On the Basic and Free plans highlights may be restricted and some endpoints are not available, with either subscription. See Pagination and limits.

What changes with an All Sports API subscription

The headers have the same names on every base URL. x-rapidapi-key is sent with every request, and x-rapidapi-host is sent only when calling through RapidAPI. What changes is the path and the host header, and on RapidAPI the key.

	Rugby API	All Sports API
Path	/matches	/rugby/matches
x-rapidapi-key on Highlightly	Your Highlightly API key	Your Highlightly API key
x-rapidapi-key on RapidAPI	Your Rugby API key	Your All Sports API key
x-rapidapi-host	rugby-highlights-api.p.rapidapi.com	sport-highlights-api.p.rapidapi.com

On Highlightly, the same API key works on rugby.highlightly.net and sports.highlightly.net, and the data returned depends on your subscription to each product. On RapidAPI, the Rugby API and the All Sports API are separate products, so each needs its own API key. One All Sports API quota covers every sport you call. See All Sports authentication.

Highlightly or RapidAPI

Both platforms give you analytics, billing settings and key management. RapidAPI does not offer custom plans or long term plan discounts.

Create an account at Highlightly or through RapidAPI. Plans and limits are listed on the Rugby API page and the All Sports API page.

OpenAPI specification

Import the OpenAPI 3.0 document into Postman or Insomnia, or generate a client from it.

Download docs.json

Support

For feature requests, questions, private plans or business enquiries, contact [email protected]. You can also start a discussion or send a private message through RapidAPI.