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The speed climbing API.

Every dataset behind this site, as plain JSON over GET. Events, standings, records, climbers, the world wall directory and where to train, versioned and regenerated on every site update. Free for non-commercial use with attribution to learnspeedclimbing.com.

curl https://learnspeedclimbing.com/api/v1/records.json

CORS is open, so fetch() works straight from the browser. No key, no origin allowlist.

Endpoints

Nineteen endpoints, no keys, no rate cards.

EndpointWhat you get
/api/v1/index.jsonThis list, as JSON, with the license line.
/api/v1/events.jsonThe season calendar: every event with dates, city, country and status.
/api/v1/events/{slug}.jsonOne event with its speed results once they are in.
/api/v1/brackets.jsonWhich events have a finals bracket, and its shape.
/api/v1/brackets/{slug}.jsonOne event's finals bracket: every heat, lane, time, fall and record.
/api/v1/standings.jsonFull results per event, men and women.
/api/v1/season-2026.jsonSeason points race, computed from results.
/api/v1/records.jsonCurrent world records, men and women.
/api/v1/top-times.jsonThe 50 fastest runs ever, men and women, one entry per run.
/api/v1/china-domestic.jsonChinese domestic results, names in hanzi. Hand-transcribed, marked verified: false.
/api/v1/climbers.jsonThe elite roster with countries and personal bests.
/api/v1/climbers-roster.jsonEvery speed climber we hold, merged across international competition and eight national federations. sources shows which datasets each name came from.
/api/v1/jp-domestic.jsonThe JMSCA official Japanese record table, and domestic Japanese results.
/api/v1/kr-domestic.jsonKorean domestic results (KAF), names in hangul. Parsed from result PDFs; romanizedSource says whether a Latin spelling is the athlete's own or ours.
/api/v1/venue-leads.jsonCompetitions with results but no wall mapped in the directory yet.
/api/v1/climbers/{slug}.jsonOne climber's full competition history.
/api/v1/walls.jsonThe world wall directory: every wall with coordinates, height, lanes and timing.
/api/v1/leaderboards.jsonCommunity wall leaderboards, each run tagged with how it was verified.
/api/v1/where.jsonWhere to train by country, also at /api/v1/where/{country-slug}.json.

Attribution

Free for non-commercial use with a visible credit and link to learnspeedclimbing.com. Building something commercial? Email us, we are easy to work with.

Provenance

Results are compiled from ifsc.results.info, the official competition system, plus our own researched wall directory. Anything gathered another way says so in its own payload: check the verified flag before you build on it. Data regenerates with every site update.

AI welcome

Search indexing, AI answers and AI training are all allowed, and llms.txt plus llms-full.txt exist for answer engines. Cite the site when you quote it.

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