Sportsipy: A free sports API written for python¶
Sportsipy is a free python API that pulls the stats from www.sports-reference.com and allows them to be easily be used in python-based applications, especially ones involving data analytics and machine learning.
Sportsipy exposes a plethora of sports information from major sports leagues in North America, such as the MLB, NBA, College Football and Basketball, NFL, and NHL. Every sport has its own set of valid API queries ranging from the list of teams in a league, to the date and time of a game, to the total number of wins a team has secured during the season, and many, many more metrics that paint a more detailed picture of how a team has performed during a game or throughout a season.
Examples¶
The following are a few examples showcasing how easy it can be to collect an abundance of metrics and information from all of the tracked leagues. The examples below are only a miniscule subset of the total number of statistics that can be pulled using sportsipy. Visit the documentation on Read The Docs for a complete list of all information exposed by the API.
Get instances of all NHL teams for the 2018 season¶
from sportsipy.nhl.teams import Teams
teams = Teams(2018)
Print every NBA team’s name and abbreviation¶
from sportsipy.nba.teams import Teams
teams = Teams()
for team in teams:
print(team.name, team.abbreviation)
Get a specific NFL team’s season information¶
from sportsipy.nfl.teams import Teams
teams = Teams()
lions = teams('DET')
Print the date of every game for a NCAA Men’s Basketball team¶
from sportsipy.ncaab.schedule import Schedule
purdue_schedule = Schedule('purdue')
for game in purdue_schedule:
print(game.date)
Print the number of interceptions by the away team in a NCAA Football game¶
from sportsipy.ncaaf.boxscore import Boxscore
championship_game = Boxscore('2018-01-08-georgia')
print(championship_game.away_interceptions)
Get a Pandas DataFrame of all stats for a MLB game¶
from sportsipy.mlb.boxscore import Boxscore
game = Boxscore('BOS201806070')
df = game.dataframe
Find the number of goals a football team has scored¶
from sportsipy.fb.team import Team
tottenham = Team('Tottenham Hotspur')
print(tottenham.goals_scored)