Get the sports for which The Odds API provides coverage.
Returns a list of in-season sports. The key returned here is the
sport_key consumed by every other toa_*() endpoint.
Usage quota cost: Free. This endpoint does not count against your quota.
Value
A tibble of the sports for which The Odds API provides coverage:
| col_name | types | description |
| key | character | Sport key, e.g. americanfootball_nfl. Use as sport_key elsewhere. |
| group | character | Sport group / category, e.g. American Football. |
| title | character | Human-readable sport title, e.g. NFL. |
| description | character | Description of the sport or competition. |
| active | logical | TRUE if the sport is currently in season. |
| has_outrights | logical | TRUE if the sport offers outright (futures) markets. |
See also
toa_sports_events() to list upcoming events for a sport,
toa_sports_scores() for live/recent scores, and toa_sports_odds()
to pull featured-market odds. Part of the
SportsDataverse.
Other The Odds API: Sports & Events:
toa_sports_events(),
toa_sports_participants(),
toa_sports_scores()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(toa_sports(all_sports = TRUE))
#> ── Sports coverage data from the-odds-api.com ──────── oddsapiR 1.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-24 03:15:40 UTC
#> ℹ Odds API quota: 2426 used, 17574 remaining (last call cost 0)
#> # A tibble: 170 × 6
#> key group title description active has_outrights
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <lgl>
#> 1 americanfootball_cfl Amer… CFL Canadian F… TRUE FALSE
#> 2 americanfootball_ncaaf Amer… NCAAF US College… TRUE FALSE
#> 3 americanfootball_ncaaf_… Amer… NCAA… US College… TRUE TRUE
#> 4 americanfootball_nfl Amer… NFL US Football TRUE FALSE
#> 5 americanfootball_nfl_pr… Amer… NFL … US Football TRUE FALSE
#> 6 americanfootball_nfl_su… Amer… NFL … Super Bowl… TRUE TRUE
#> 7 americanfootball_ufl Amer… UFL United Foo… FALSE FALSE
#> 8 aussierules_afl Auss… AFL Aussie Foo… TRUE FALSE
#> 9 baseball_kbo Base… KBO KBO League TRUE FALSE
#> 10 baseball_milb Base… MiLB Minor Leag… FALSE FALSE
#> # ℹ 160 more rows
# }