Every event has its own setup. Maybe it’s the spreadsheet that runs your season, the report your board asks for, or the website your club built years ago.
Our updated Event Director API connects your registration data to the tools you already use. It’s a big step up from the old one, and it gives you far more ways to put your data to work.
What is the Event Director API?
An API lets two pieces of software talk to each other. Think of it as a direct line between your registration data and your own tools. Instead of downloading a file and moving the data by hand, your tools can ask for what they need.
What you can do with it
Here’s what the API can access:
- A list of your events, with an optional date range
- Categories available for registration
- Entries, with optional filters
- Payments received so far
- Current balance of unpaid funds
- Merchandise and items
- Bib number updates for entries
How you might use it
Working with a timer? Your timing partner can pull entries and categories directly into their setup, then send bib number changes back to your entries. No more last-minute exports or competing versions of your participant list.
Run a club website? You could use entries and categories to show who’s signed up, right on your own site.
Report to a board or a finance team? Invoices and balances can feed your own reports, so you’re not rebuilding the numbers by hand each time.
How to get started
1. Create your API key.
Log into your event director account and go to the API Settings tab under Event Director Tasks. Give your key a name that tells you who or what it’s for, like “Timing partner” or “Website,” then click Create New API Key. Your key only works for your own events. Treat it like a password, and only share it with partners you trust.
2. Get your documentation links
- BikeReg Event Director API documentation: how to get set up
- BikeReg full API reference: the data you can pull and update
You’ll also find the documentation in each site’s footer under Event Director API: RunReg, SkiReg, TriReg.
3. Choose who helps you build it.
- Your timing partner or web developer. Many already work with APIs. Share the two links above, tell them what you want to connect, and they can take it from there.
- An AI tool. Share the two links above and tell it what you want to do with your data. It can explain your options and guide you through the setup step by step.
Keep security in mind. The documentation doesn’t include any participant information, but your API key and the data you pull do. Never share your key or participant information with an AI tool, and follow your organization’s data policies before connecting any tool to your registration data.
Tell us what to build next
We’re committed to building powerful tools for event director integrations, and more API features are on the way. Is there something you wish the API could handle for your event? Send your ideas our way. Your requests help shape what we build next.
Ready to connect your data?
Log into your event director dashboard, then head to the documentation to get started.
Have a question? Email support@athletereg.com or call 888.956.9560.
New to athleteReg? Request more information about setting up your event registration page.
