# TheSportsDB Player Search

> TheSportsDB Player Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Search for a sports player by name and retrieve their profile including current team, sport, nationality, position, and date of birth.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/thesportsdb-player-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-player-search-6b15c4c6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L4RcE5I62qdiLAsI8IDgr

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 thesportsdb-player-search-6b15c4c6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Erling Haaland on TheSportsDB and tell me his current team, nationality, position, and date of birth?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need quick structured biographical and team data for a specific sports player by name, especially for multi-sport coverage. Prefer this over sport-specific APIs when you need nationality, position, DOB, and current team in a single call without knowing the sport in advance.

## Known failure modes

- Player name not found — returns empty results or null player array
- Ambiguous player name matching multiple athletes — may return the wrong player or multiple results
- Misspelled player name — no results returned
- Network or upstream TheSportsDB API error — HTTP error or timeout

## How this service works

TheSportsDB player search by name: profile with current team, sport, nationality, position and date of birth. Param player = player name. Query: ?player= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing the matched player's profile data, including their current team, sport type, nationality, playing position, and date of birth.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-player-search-6b15c4c6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)