espn_team_roster
ESPN team roster. Returns a team's roster (players with position, jersey, age, and experience) plus head coach from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The sport enum accepts football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The league enum accepts nfl, college-football, nba, wnba, mens-college...
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What espn_team_roster does on Crawlora
AI agents call espn_team_roster to retrieve information from Crawlora without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
team | string | Yes | Team id (numeric) or abbreviation |
sport | string | Yes | Sport key |
league | string | Yes | League key (must be valid for the sport) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why espn_team_roster is rated Low
This tool queries and retrieves publicly available sports roster data from ESPN without any capability to modify, delete, or execute operations. It is a pure read operation with no destructive, financial, or execution consequences. The data returned is public information about team compositions. Severity is low due to no sensitive data exposure or operational risk.
From the tool's definition Tool returns a team's roster (players with position, jersey, age, and experience) plus head coach from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. Verbs are 'returns' and retrieves data with no modification or side effects.
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The rule that runs espn_team_roster safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Crawlora, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For espn_team_roster, this is the rule to start with:
espn_team_roster is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Crawlora, apply this rule, and every espn_team_roster call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about espn_team_roster
ESPN team roster. Returns a team's roster (players with position, jersey, age, and experience) plus head coach from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The sport enum accepts football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The league enum accepts nfl, college-football, nba, wnba, mens-college-basketball, womens-college-basketball, mlb, nhl, eng.1, esp.1, ita.1, ger.1, fra.1, usa.1, and uefa.champions; it must be valid for the chosen sport. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlora MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
espn_team_roster accepts 3 parameters: team, sport, league. Required: team, sport, league. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Crawlora MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for espn_team_roster: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Crawlora. Nothing to install.
espn_team_roster is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the espn_team_roster rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for espn_team_roster. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
espn_team_roster is provided by the Crawlora MCP server (crawlora-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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