Introduction

The API is not part of the default Tickaroo Live Blog plan. Please contact our support if you want to use it.

Scope

The goal of this API is to manage liveblogs (games), teams, players and tournaments in your organization account.

Requests

All requests and responses are application/json content type and follow typical HTTP response status codes for success and failure. It is highly recommended to use HTTPS to protect your API credentials during requests. The base URL for all requests is:

https://www.tickaroo.com

A successful response is indicated by HTTP status code 200 and always contain an optional body. If the response has a body it will be documented below.

Unless otherwise stated, errors to bad requests will respond with HTTP 4xx or status codes. The body will contain a JSON document detailing the error. General error codes include:

Code Status Text Possible Reason
400 Bad Request There was an error with the format of your request (for example a missing parameter)
401 Unauthorized The credentials you used to access the API are invalid
403 Forbidden You do not have access to this specific resource
404 Not Found The specific resource was not found
422 Unprocessable Entity The resource posted document is invalid (for example the format of a field is incorrect)
500 Internal Server Error We had a problem with our server. If the error persists, please contact our support and provide the request you tried to execute

Authentication

Tickaroo will Provide you with an client_id and client_secret that allows you to access resources within your organization directly.

Authentication to the API is either performed via HTTP Basic Auth or via query parameters.

For basic auth, use the client_id as the basic auth username and the client_secret as the basic auth password and encode them as usual.

For query parameters just add the client_id and client_secret to your query and set them to the corresponding values.

Responses

Parsing Guidelines

Every JSON object in the API’s response contains a _type field indicating what type of object is returned. The _type field is always string starting with Tik::Model::. The documentation will use this string do define object types.

All dates and timestamps in the API are transmitted as 32bit UNIX Timestamps. The object documentation will call those fields “Timestamp”.

Fields declared “ObjectID” in the documentation are string matching the regular expression /\A[0-9a-fA-F]{24}\Z/.

Field declared “Sportstype” must contain a valid sportstype identifier. Valid identifiers are:

  • american_football
  • beach_volleyball
  • badminton
  • badminton_team
  • baseball
  • basketball
  • blog
  • budo
  • conference
  • field_hockey
  • floorball
  • futsal
  • generic
  • handball
  • icehockey
  • motoball
  • news
  • news_beta
  • ninepins100
  • ninepins120
  • ninepins120ko
  • ninepins120_sprint
  • ninepins120_sprint_tournament
  • ninepins120_ranked
  • ninepins120_team_ranked
  • rugby_union
  • soccer
  • softball
  • table_tennis
  • tennis
  • tennis_team_scoring
  • volleyball

General Object Types

Tik::Model::ApiError

General error message usually used 400, 401, 403 Responses.

{
  "_type": "Tik::Model::ApiError",
  
  // (string) contains a detailed error message
  "message": "" 
}

Tik::Model::ApiSuccess

General success message without specific return value.

{
  "_type": "Tik::Model::ApiSuccess"
}

Tik::Model::ValidationError

Validation error usually used for 422 Responses.

{
  "_type": "Tik::Model::ValidationError"
  "errors": [
    {
      "_type": "Tik::Model::ValidationErrorItem",
      
      // (string) attribute with failed validation
      "attribute": ""
      
      // (string) error message
      "error": ""
    }
  ]
}

Tik::Model::Collection

General paginated list.

{
  "_type": "Tik::Model::ApiCollection",
  
  // (int) the total number of results in the list
  "total": 0,
  
  // (int) the index of the first element of result
  "offset": 0,
  
  // (array<?>) the result list
  "items": []
}

Status

Status codes for entities with a “status” attribute.

  • 0: StatusDefault
  • 40: StatusProtected
  • 50: StatusInaccessable
  • 51: StatusInaccessableByTickaroo
  • 60: StatusUnpublished
  • 90: StatusBlocked
  • 100: StatusDeleted

Entity Types