When you want to display a Single Game/Fixture Widget, a Match or Fixture ID is required. This is a unique data-id that every fixture has.
Same applies to H2H Widgets, you’ll need to get the teams ID to use to publish and display the H2H Table widget.
In this post, we are going to show a quick way to find a Fixture or Team ID. Let’s start with getting a Fixture ID.
Getting a Fixture/Match ID from Livescore table
Step 1: This post assumes you have already published a Livescore table somewhere in your site. Now head on to the page that has the livescore table. We are going to use the default browser inspector/developer tool.
- Option 1: Right-click any part of the page and choose Inspect. Right-clicking a specific page element will open that element in the inspector view.
- Option 2: In the top menu bar, select View > Developer > Developer Tools.
- Option 3: Click the three-dot icon in the top right corner of the browser window. From there, choose More Tools > Developer Tools. Then, click the Inspect tab in the popup.
- Option 4: Use the shortcut control-shift-C on Windows or command-option-C on macOS.
Step 2: The Developer/Inspector Panel will open at the bottom of the browser window, but it can be docked to right, left or opened in a separate window altogether. Next step is to click on Select Element Icon similar to a mouse pointer situated in the top left corner of the inspector Panel as shown below. Once clicked, it should turn blue as shown below.
Step 3: Next, move your mouse and hover/click on either the Game Time or FT Cell in the Livescore table as shown below. The number shown at the end of the #football-game-status- Cell ID in the hover info box or on the inspector Panel is the Match/Fixture ID. For the below example, the Match ID for Arsenal vs Wolves is 1035305.
You can then go ahead and use this Match ID in creating a Single Match Widget using our EvoAPI Football Widgets Plugin
Getting a Team ID from Livescore/League Standing tables
For getting Team ID it’s as simple as just opening the team’s logo. You can do this from either a Livescore page, Tables page or on a page with a Single Match/Fixture Widget. For this example, we are using a Livescore page.
Just Right Click on the Team’s Logo and Select Open image in new tab.
On the URL field, the team ID is the file name of the logo. For example, if I open Manchester United’s Logo image in new tab, the file name is 33, which is the team’s ID as shown below.
And that’s the faster and easier way of getting Match ID or Team ID without leaving your site. Alternatively, if this is too technical for you, you can visit your API-Football Dashboard where you can find all League & Team IDs
