generated: 2026-09-07
method: derived
source: openapi/parlay-api-openapi.json, asyncapi/parlay-api-asyncapi.json, https://parlay-api.com/limits, https://parlay-api.com/.well-known/security.txt, https://parlay-api.com/llms.txt
name: ParlayAPI Conformance
description: Standards posture derived from the provider's published contracts and
  docs on 2026-09-07. Sports-odds aggregation has no dominant domain contract
  standard; the closest signature here is de facto the-odds-api v4 wire
  compatibility, recorded as a compatibility profile rather than an invented
  standard conformance.
conformance:
- id: openapi-3.1
  conforms: true
  evidence: https://parlay-api.com/openapi.json declares openapi 3.1.0 with 206
    paths; saved at openapi/parlay-api-openapi.json.
- id: asyncapi-3.0
  conforms: true
  evidence: https://parlay-api.com/v1/asyncapi.json declares asyncapi 3.0.0 with 5
    channels (WebSocket + SSE); saved at asyncapi/parlay-api-asyncapi.json.
- id: rfc9116-security-txt
  conforms: true
  evidence: https://parlay-api.com/.well-known/security.txt (HTTP 200) with
    Contact, Expires, Canonical, Policy fields.
- id: rfc9457
  conforms: false
  evidence: Error responses use a vendor JSON envelope ({error, message,
    request_id, docs_url}), not application/problem+json; see
    errors/parlay-api-problem-types.yml.
- id: oauth2
  conforms: false
  evidence: API-key auth only (X-API-Key / ?apiKey= / Bearer); no oauth2
    securitySchemes in the contract and no /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    (404 probed 2026-09-07).
- id: pagination
  conforms: true
  evidence: limit/offset parameters on list endpoints plus documented time-window
    parameters (dateFrom/dateTo, commenceTimeFrom/commenceTimeTo) in the OpenAPI.
- id: idempotency
  conforms: false
  evidence: No Idempotency-Key mechanism; only two operations document
    operation-level idempotency (see conventions idempotency.coverage partial).
- id: llms-txt
  conforms: true
  evidence: https://parlay-api.com/llms.txt (HTTP 200), llmstxt.org format with
    curated sections; saved at llms/parlay-api-llms.txt.
- id: mcp
  conforms: true
  evidence: Official parlayapi-mcp stdio server on PyPI, registered as
    io.github.JacobiusMakes/parlayapi in the MCP registry.
- id: the-odds-api-v4-compat
  conforms: true
  evidence: llms.txt and /migrate-from-the-odds-api document drop-in wire
    compatibility with the-odds-api v4 (same endpoints, params, response format;
    ?apiKey= supported) — a de facto market compatibility profile, not a formal
    standards-body contract.
- id: rfc8594-sunset
  conforms: false
  evidence: No Sunset/Deprecation headers documented anywhere in the contract or
    docs (grep of openapi.json, /limits, llms.txt on 2026-09-07).