# TheSportsDB Player Search by Name

> TheSportsDB Player Search by Name is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches TheSportsDB for athletes by name across all sports, returning player details including team, sport, nationality, and birth date.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/thesportsdb-search-players
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-player-search-by-name-5ebb06bc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_V3I45UC63KHvKPqLZsUuF

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-by-name-5ebb06bc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the player profile for Lionel Messi on TheSportsDB — I want to know his team, sport, nationality, and date of birth?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to look up an athlete's biographical and team information by name across any sport. Ideal for multi-sport queries where you don't know the sport in advance. Prefer this over sport-specific APIs when the sport is unknown or when you need a quick cross-sport name search.

## Known failure modes

- Player name not found — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous name matching multiple players — returns multiple entries
- TheSportsDB upstream unavailable — returns 5xx error
- Missing or malformed query parameter — returns error response
- Non-Latin or special characters in name may reduce match quality

## How this service works

TheSportsDB player search by name (any sport): player, team, sport, nationality, birth date Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing player profile information from TheSportsDB, including the player's name, team, sport type, nationality, and birth date.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-player-search-by-name-5ebb06bc/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)