# Suverse Sports Player Search

> Suverse Sports Player Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.07/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches for sports players by name using TheSportsDB and returns player ID, team, sport, nationality, and position.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-sports-player
- Price: $0.07/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-sports-player-search-9249c57b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_S-gEcmDScKoL13DNlyin-

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability suverse-sports-player-search-9249c57b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Lionel Messi in the sports player database and tell me his team, sport, nationality, and position?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, structured player metadata (ID, team, sport, nationality, position) by name without requiring an API key. Ideal for AI agents enriching sports queries, populating fantasy tool player cards, or resolving player identities across sports. Use over direct TheSportsDB access when you want a proxy with a simple pay-per-call model and no key management.

## Known failure modes

- Player name not found in TheSportsDB — returns empty or null result
- Ambiguous name matching multiple players — may return first match or multiple candidates
- TheSportsDB upstream outage — service unavailable or timeout
- Misspelled player name — no results returned
- Non-English or transliterated name variants may not match database entries

## How this service works

Search sports players by name from TheSportsDB, no key. Returns player id, team, sport, nationality, and position. For AI agents enriching sports queries and fantasy tools.

## Output

Returns a structured record for the matched player including their unique player ID, current team, sport category, nationality, and playing position as sourced from TheSportsDB.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-sports-player-search-9249c57b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from proxy.suverse.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/proxy.suverse.io/llms.txt)