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Realtime Sports API MCP Server

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Realtime Sports API is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 15 tools.

Live scores, play-by-play, box scores, odds, injuries: NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NCAA, 23 soccer leagues

Uptime history 36 days of history · worst day 0%
36 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 92 checks
15
Tools
read from the server
320 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 November 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Nov a tool appeared get_rankings

Realtime Sports API does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 2.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add realtime-sports-api --transport http https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.realtime-sports-api]
url = "https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "realtime-sports-api": {
      "url": "https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "realtime-sports-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 15

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

team
get_team
One team: names, record, standing summary, venue.
get_team_roster
Current roster for a team, grouped by position.
athletes
search_athletes
Find players by name within a league; returns athlete ids and teams.
box
get_box_score
Team totals and player statistics for a game (basketball, soccer, baseball, football). Not available before kickoff.
event
get_event
Full details for one game: teams, score, status, venue, season/week, broadcasts, officials.
events
get_events
The league's current scoreboard window: recent, live and upcoming games. For specific dates or weeks use get_schedule.
injuries
get_injuries
Current injury report grouped by team (empty in the off-season). Pass team_id for that team's complete report.
leagues
list_leagues
List the leagues this API monitors live, with the sport and league slugs every other tool needs. 29 leagues monitored live: NFL, college football, NBA, men's college basketball, MLB, NHL and 23 soccer competitions.
live
get_live_events
Games in progress right now for a league, with score, period/clock and status. Empty list when nothing is live. Data is typically 20-30 s behind live play.
news
get_news
Latest news headlines for a league (optionally one team), with links.
odds
get_odds
Current spread, moneyline and total for a game from a single source book. Returns null when no odds are available.
plays
get_plays
Play-by-play for a game, oldest first, paginated. Use a larger limit (up to 300 here) to get more plays per call; check pagination.hasNextPage.
rankings
get_rankings
College polls: AP Top 25, coaches poll and (college football) the College Football Playoff rankings. Only football/college-football and basketball/mens-college-basketball. Latest release unless week is given.
schedule
get_schedule
Games in a date range (start_date/end_date, YYYY-MM-DD, at most 31 days, US Eastern calendar days like most US schedules) or, for NFL and college football, a season week (season + week). Up to 200 games.
teams
list_teams
Teams in a league (paginated; college football has 800+ teams across divisions).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.realtimesportsapi.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 82 ms 2 min ago

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Realtime Sports API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Realtime Sports API do?
It exposes 15 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_box_score, get_event, get_events, get_injuries, get_live_events, get_news and 9 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Realtime Sports API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 92 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 320 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Realtime Sports API as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Realtime Sports API?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Realtime Sports API need an API key?
No. Realtime Sports API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 15 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Realtime Sports API?
It answers our handshake in 320 ms on average, which is faster than 44% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.