Team fixtures without using season

It is common UX practice in football apps to get fixtures of the team when clicking the the team name. When I want to request fixtures of the team v3.football.api-sports.io/fixtures?team=3453&timezone=Asia/Baku I get:

{
    "get": "fixtures",
    "parameters": {
        "team": "3453",
        "timezone": "Asia/Baku"
    },
    "errors": {
        "season": "The Season field is required."
    },
    "results": 0,
    "paging": {
        "current": 1,
        "total": 1
    },
    "response": []
}

It is not logical to require season for the team fixtures because one team may play in multiple seasons. I know that it is possible to get seasons of the team but in order to show the fixtures I need to make 3-4 request and process them. This will slow down the frontend system. Therefore would like to ask to remove mandatory season field when team id presents in fixtures requests.

You may want to clarify your feature request. If you suggest retrieving only future fixtures for a given team or league irrespective of the season a future_fixture endpoint - which indeed - would make things easier might be something they'd be willing to implement.

However, if you want to retrieve past and future fixtures, I do think requiring a season field is reasonable and they may not want to change this.

To improve your UX you may want to consider some backend pre-processing /caching (which is anyway a good idea in order to reduce API cost).

If you really only want to do front end processing how about parallelising your async requests e.g. https://rxjs.dev/api/index/function/forkJoin

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Team fixtures without using season #363