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RotoWire

Fantasy sports content publisher whose REST API and syndication feeds supply player news, injuries, lineups, depth charts and projections across major leagues; also resold through OpticOdds.

Facts verified against the provider's site on

Commercial use: Not allowedBetting use: not disclosedToo little discussion
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31

SportDex Score

#137 of 233 sports APIs

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Popularity
32

Brand demand, developer discussions, GitHub repos and videos

Community & reliability
—

Tone of public discussions, liked vs criticised points, reliability complaints; not enough public discussion to judge.

Transparency
35

Public prices, docs, terms and coverage you can check before calling sales

Developer experience
25

Free access, docs, SDKs, OpenAPI, sandbox, realtime delivery, ecosystem

Computed from public data only; uptime and latency are not measured yet. Enterprise feeds that sell by contract score lower on transparency by design. How the score works

Starting price
Contact sales
Free access
Not disclosed
Sports
4 (American football, Basketball…)
Live data
Not disclosed
Delivery
Polling only (REST)
Discussions
9 threads
GitHub adoption
91 repos

Best for

Fantasy and betting products that need player news, injuries, lineups and projections for major US leagues, via a licensed partner feed.

Fantasy sports appsInjury and lineup alertsDepth chart displays

Not ideal for

Individuals or hobby projects; no public pricing, and the consumer site terms limit use to personal non-commercial purposes.

Limitations to check

  • − Feed access is sales-led with no public pricing
  • − Consumer site terms are personal and non-commercial only
  • − Also resold through OpticOdds
  • − Sport list not confirmed in the saved docs

Written from the provider's own pages (source).

Last checked 2026-11-03

RotoWire at a glance

What is RotoWire best for?
Fantasy and betting products that need player news, injuries, lineups and projections for major US leagues, via a licensed partner feed. Not ideal for: Individuals or hobby projects; no public pricing, and the consumer site terms limit use to personal non-commercial purposes.
How much does RotoWire cost?
RotoWire has no public price list: pricing is quoted by sales on request.
Does RotoWire have a free tier?
RotoWire does not say whether a free tier exists. Check https://www.rotowire.com.
What does RotoWire cover?
RotoWire is a sports data api. Its sports: American football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice hockey; data: Fantasy, Injuries, Lineups, News, Team stats.
Does RotoWire have a WebSocket or streaming API?
No streaming is listed. RotoWire delivers data by REST, so you poll for updates.
Can I use RotoWire data commercially or for betting?
According to the public terms of RotoWire — commercial use: not allowed.
What do developers say about RotoWire?
Developers mostly scrape RotoWire's public pages for lineups, news, injuries, props and DFS projections, often hitting iframes and dynamic tables, which suggests demand for its data but little first-hand use of the paid API or feeds. A single API client repo exists. No real user opinion on pricing or quality was found.
What are the alternatives to RotoWire?
Close alternatives in the SportDex catalog: SportsDataIO, FantasyPros API, API-Sports / API-Football, MySportsFeeds, StatPal.

Commercial decision

Pricing & plan limits

PlanPriceRequestsWhat's included
Partner licenceContact sales—No public pricing; contact salessource

Docs and pricing details from search snippets; crawled pages were editorial content. Sport list and JSON format not confirmed in docs.

Before choosing a paid plan, confirm

• What counts as one request (per call, per market, per region?)

• What happens when you exceed the quota: blocked or billed

• Whether live and historical data are on your plan

• Whether your use (public app, betting, resale) is licensed

The critical question

Data coverage

Sports
American footballBasketballBaseballIce hockey
Data types
FantasyInjuriesLineupsNewsTeam stats
Key competitions
Not disclosed
Competitions
Not disclosed
Live / in-play
Not disclosed
Women's competitions
Not disclosed
Betting markets
Not disclosed
Bookmaker regions
Not disclosed
Bookmakers
Not disclosed
History depth
Not disclosed
Update frequency
poll every 5-10 minutes on game days
Name languages
Not disclosed
ID mapping
Not disclosed

Coverage often depends on the plan; confirm the exact league and season on your plan.

Before you build

Usage rights & access

Commercial use
Not allowedsource
Betting products
Not disclosed
Redistribution
Not disclosed
Storing data
Not disclosed
Attribution
Not disclosed
Logos & photos
Not disclosed
Who can buy
Individualssource
Verification (KYC)
Not disclosed
Not available in
Not disclosed
Only available in
Not disclosed
Read the terms

Developer-ready evaluation

Integration & documentation

Protocols
REST
Formats
JSON
Authentication
api key
SDKs
Not disclosed
OpenAPI spec
Not disclosed
Claimed latency
Not disclosed
Status page
Not disclosed
Sandbox / test keys
Not disclosed
Support
Not disclosed
SLA uptime
Not disclosed
Preview brief
# Integration brief: RotoWire

Goal: build a feature on RotoWire data. Use only the official documentation below as the source of truth.

## Known facts (from SportDex, verify before relying on them)
- Website: https://www.rotowire.com
- Docs: https://rotowire.readme.io/docs/quick-start
- Sports: American football, Basketball, Baseball, Ice hockey
- Data: Fantasy, Injuries, Lineups, News, Team stats
- Protocols: REST; formats: json
- Auth: api_key
- Free plan: none listed
- Note: Docs and pricing details from search snippets; crawled pages were editorial content. Sport list and JSON format not confirmed in docs.

## Verify before writing code
- exact endpoint paths, parameters and response fields (read the official docs, do not guess)

## Implementation rules
- Keep the API key on the server (environment variable, backend route or edge function); never ship it to the browser.
- Cache responses and respect rate limits; count how many requests each screen triggers.
- Handle errors explicitly: invalid key, quota exceeded (429), missing fields, empty fixtures, timeouts.
- Start with one demo request and log the raw response before building UI on assumed field names.

Data quality signals

Data source & company

Official partners
Not disclosed
How data is collected
Not disclosed
Certifications
Not disclosed
Payment methods
Not disclosed
Minimum contract
Not disclosed
Country
United States
Founded
Not disclosed

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What developers say

Too little discussiondata qualitylegal

Developers mostly scrape RotoWire's public pages for lineups, news, injuries, props and DFS projections, often hitting iframes and dynamic tables, which suggests demand for its data but little first-hand use of the paid API or feeds. A single API client repo exists. No real user opinion on pricing or quality was found.

Praised for

  • Data wanted for lineups, injuries and projections

Complaints

  • Public data mainly reachable by scraping, which breaks

Our summary of public discussions, not a rating. Vendor posts are not counted as user opinion.

Discussions

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Evidence & transparency

Official sources

Facts were extracted from the provider's own pages on 2026-11-03. Empty fields mean the provider does not say, not that the feature is missing. How we know