All of the data you get back from these endpoints is property of MLB/MLB Advanced Media, and you should refer to their terms of use before using any of it in projects.
- Host:
http://lookup-service-prod.mlb.com - Path:
/json/named.[endpoint].bam
http://lookup-service-prod.mlb.com/json/named.search_player_all.bam
For many responses from the API, you can determine what data is included and excluded, using the col_in and col_ex parameters respectively. This is useful and almost required for some endpoints that return large amounts of additional data that you likely won't need.
The format for these params is [endpoint].col_in or [endpoint].col_ex, for example a search request with col_in would look like this:
http://lookup-service-prod.mlb.com/json/named.search_player_all.bam?sport_code='mlb'&active_sw='Y'&name_part='young%'&search_player_all.col_in=player_id
This would perform a search for 'young' but any results found would only have the player_id field. Conversely, we could exclude the player_id field by using col_ex
http://lookup-service-prod.mlb.com/json/named.search_player_all.bam?sport_code='mlb'&active_sw='Y'&name_part='young%'&search_player_all.col_ex=player_id
This way we get search results that feature every field except the player's ID.