Live sports data & cross-book betting odds — ~500 tools, 28 providers, free, zero-config.
Live sports data & cross-book betting odds — ~500 tools, 28 providers, free, zero-config. The sportsdata mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 14 defined tools rather than through you.
Free & open source (MIT). ~520 tools across 29 providers in Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client. uvx sportsdata-mcp serve and you're done.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Group — Toolsafl.public.core — 22afl.public.broadcasting — 9afl.public.content — 8afl.premium.cfs — 1afl.premium.statspro — 1afl.premium.keyserver — 1openf1.reference — 3openf1.results — 5openf1.timing — 5openf1.telemetry — 2openf1.live — 3You will need 4 environment variables: SPORTSDATA_SPEC_FEED_URL, SPORTSDATA_ENTITLEMENT_URL, DATAGOLF_KEY, X_BEARER_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at sportsdata-mcp on PyPI and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Sportsdata's toolset — Group, afl.public.core, afl.public.broadcasting and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by DanielTomaro13; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Group | Tools |
| afl.public.core | 22 |
| afl.public.broadcasting | 9 |
| afl.public.content | 8 |
| afl.premium.cfs | 1 |
| afl.premium.statspro | 1 |
| afl.premium.keyserver | 1 |
| openf1.reference | 3 |
| openf1.results | 5 |
| openf1.timing | 5 |
| openf1.telemetry | 2 |
| openf1.live | 3 |
| mlb.reference | 22 |
| mlb.schedule | 5 |
{
"mcpServers": {
"sportsdata": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["sportsdata-mcp"],
"env": {
"SPORTSDATA_SPEC_FEED_URL": "your-value",
"SPORTSDATA_ENTITLEMENT_URL": "your-value",
"DATAGOLF_KEY": "your-value",
"X_BEARER_TOKEN": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SPORTSDATA_SPEC_FEED_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| SPORTSDATA_ENTITLEMENT_URL | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Yes |
| DATAGOLF_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| X_BEARER_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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