Every player registered in one league-season (birth dates are not returned).
Endpoint: GET https://miniappapi.tbf.org.tr/webapi-service/api/Player/get-player-list
Arguments
- season
Required. Season END year (2027 = the 2026-2027 season). TBF keys a league-season by internal season and activity ids; the runtime reads them from the league's season list by the END year of the label. A year the list lacks raises
wehoop_no_data.- competition
TBF league: bsl (Basketbol Super Ligi), tbl (second tier) or kbsl (women's Super Ligi). The top flight was named TBL until 2007-08 and is listed under bsl. Default
"kbsl"(the women's Super Ligi).
Value
A wehoop_data tibble. One row per registered player. Birth dates are not returned.
Every column below is always present (a zero-row tibble keeps them and their types); an answer
with nothing in it raises wehoop_no_data, as in sdv-py.
| col_name | type | description |
| season | integer | Season END year of the request. |
| competition | character | League prefix the row reports (bsl, tbl or kbsl); equals the request's competition. |
| person_id | integer | TBF person id (kisiID; key space: TBF persons, stable across seasons and clubs). |
| player_name | character | Player name as TBF prints it for that route (title case, Turkish letters kept). |
| nationality | character | Nationality as a TURKISH country name (ABD = United States); see the nationality_code. |
| nationality_code | character | Nationality code (tabiyetKisa), ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 except GB for the United Kingdom. |
| club_id | integer | Stable club id (takimID / teamId of the team lists; key space: TBF clubs, the same across seasons and leagues: Tofas = 13). Not the team-season id (team_process_id). |
| team_name | character | Team name for that season, uppercase with Turkish letters. |
| jersey_number | character | Shirt number as a string, so '0' and '00' stay distinct. |
| prefix | character | League prefix of the row (bsl, tbl, kbsl); the runtime refuses any other than the request's. |
| season_id | integer | Internal TBF season id (key space: TBF seasons, global across leagues: 174 = 2026-2027, 172 = 2025-2026; the odd ids are international UA- seasons). Never an sdv key: use season (END year). |
Details
Official TBF app API, unofficial for SportsDataverse: the backend of the Turkish Basketball Federation's mobile app (miniappapi.tbf.org.tr), which serves BSL, TBL, KBSL and the other TBF leagues. It needs no key; robots.txt answers 404 on the host, and the runtime spaces requests at least 1 s apart. SportsDataverse has not ruled on TBF's terms, so payloads are not redistributed as release assets. The vendor's origin hosts (nikayazilim.com) serve the same data without Cloudflare but are deliberately not used, redirects are never followed, and www.tbf.org.tr's interactive Turnstile is neither used nor automated.
Coverage: season and competition are parameters (bsl Basketbol Super Ligi, back to 1966-67 in the league
list; tbl second tier; kbsl women, both from 2015-16). Game wrappers serve FINISHED games only (an
unfinished game raises wehoop_asset_fetch). Box scores exist from 2006-07 (no starters flagged that
season); play-by-play and shots from 2025-26 only, an earlier finished game raises wehoop_no_data. Every
game carries a Genius LiveStats id (genius_id, joins the genius family) from 2018-19 on some seasons
and on every game of 2025-26 and later. Birth dates, contact details, photos and logos are dropped. Names
and category labels are Turkish; the column descriptions give the English gloss.
Errors: wehoop_no_data when TBF has nothing for the request (HTTP 404, an unknown game or player, a season
the league list lacks, an empty list, a finished game before 2025-26 asked for play-by-play or shots);
wehoop_bad_request for an invalid argument or HTTP 400 / 422; wehoop_asset_fetch when the fetch failed or
the answer is not the one asked for (an unfinished game, a body for another game, season, league or team,
an error envelope, a redirect, a partial page or a changed capped list). All inherit wehoop_error.
Timestamps are Turkey local time (Europe/Istanbul).
See also
Other TBF Functions:
tbf_daily_matches(),
tbf_game_header(),
tbf_game_leaders(),
tbf_game_players(),
tbf_highlights(),
tbf_leaders_assists(),
tbf_leaders_blocks(),
tbf_leaders_efficiency(),
tbf_leaders_minutes(),
tbf_leaders_points(),
tbf_leaders_rebounds(),
tbf_leaders_steals(),
tbf_leaders_threes(),
tbf_leaders_turnovers(),
tbf_league_seasons(),
tbf_leagues(),
tbf_pbp(),
tbf_period_scores(),
tbf_player_box(),
tbf_player_career(),
tbf_schedule(),
tbf_seasons(),
tbf_shots(),
tbf_standings(),
tbf_team_box(),
tbf_team_games(),
tbf_team_player_stats(),
tbf_team_roster(),
tbf_team_staff(),
tbf_teams(),
tbf_weeks()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(tbf_players(competition = "bsl", season = 2027))
#> ── TBF Players ───────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-22 03:25:44 UTC
#> # A tibble: 257 × 11
#> season competition person_id player_name nationality nationality_code club_id
#> <int> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 2027 bsl 443749 Ahmet Aldi… TÜRKİYE TUR 246239
#> 2 2027 bsl 159631 Akın Kande… TÜRKİYE TUR 234077
#> 3 2027 bsl 512899 Akwasi Yeb… BÜYÜK BRİT… GB 47153
#> 4 2027 bsl 776935 Aleksa Avr… SIRBİSTAN SRB 55636
#> 5 2027 bsl 502492 Aleksej Ni… SLOVENYA SVN 4
#> 6 2027 bsl 779278 Alen Smail… SIRBİSTAN SRB 4
#> 7 2027 bsl 441857 Alex Perez ABD USA 234077
#> 8 2027 bsl 778182 Alex Reese ABD USA 246463
#> 9 2027 bsl 393217 Ali Yiğit … TÜRKİYE TUR 3
#> 10 2027 bsl 222914 Alican Gün… TÜRKİYE TUR 47153
#> # ℹ 247 more rows
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: team_name <chr>, jersey_number <chr>, prefix <chr>,
#> # season_id <int>
# }