The Events API, without the wait.
Every response from the official Events API, cached and kept fresh by a poller that knows when matches are about to post. Same paths, same JSON. Swap the domain and your app gets faster.
https://Why it's faster
Most apps hit FIRST every time a user loads a page, so FIRST gets the same request thousands of times and everyone waits. We ask once, store the answer, and serve it from the edge. You still get data as fresh as asking FIRST yourself.
Drop-in compatible
Identical paths, query params and JSON. Basic auth works, so existing clients only need a new domain and key. Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since and 304s work too.
Smart polling
We track every event's schedule and predict when the next result will post. Around that moment we poll every second, recent results every 3s, slower data every 10s, and finished data never.
Webhooks
Stop polling. Subscribe to an event, a team or a whole season and get a signed POST when a match posts, rankings move, alliances are picked or awards go out.
All of history
Every season the API has is scraped and stored once. Old events come straight out of storage, no trip to FIRST.
Filters for free
teamNumber, matchNumber, start/end and top are applied to our cached copy, and each one is checked against FIRST's own answer before we rely on it.
Bearer keys
Building something new? Use Authorization: Bearer with a key from the dashboard. Keys are free and you can make as many as you need.
How fresh is it?
The poll rate follows what's actually happening at each event.
| Every | What |
|---|---|
| 1s | The next match result, from a minute before we expect it until it posts. Alliance selection while it's happening. |
| 3s | Match results, score details, rankings and hybrid schedules at a running event. Awards once playoffs start. |
| 10s | Everything else at a running event: schedule, teams, alliances, awards, advancement. |
| 1–5m | Event days outside match hours, and the day before. |
| 10m–12h | Season lists, upcoming events, and events that ended in the last two weeks. |
| never | Events that ended more than two weeks ago and past seasons. Fetched once, served forever. |