def scrape_espn_play_by_plays(withProgress, game_ids, start_yr):
"""
Gets play by play data from ESPN API for the games who's ids are in game_ids
Returns a list of json objects (containing play-by-plays for each game)
"""
data = []
for i, game_id in enumerate(game_ids):
pbp_url = espn.get_game_url("playbyplay", league, game_id)
pbp_json = espn.get_url(pbp_url,
cached_path=cached_json,
game_id=game_id)
data.append(pbp_json)
return data
# print nfl 2016 postseason scores
scoreboard_urls = espn.get_all_scoreboard_urls("nfl", 2017)
for scoreboard_url in scoreboard_urls:
data = espn.get_url(scoreboard_url, cached_path="cached_json")
for event in data['content']['sbData']['events']:
if event['season']['type'] == 3:
print(
event['season']['type'], event['season']['year'],
event['competitions'][0]['competitors'][0]['team']
['abbreviation'],
event['competitions'][0]['competitors'][0]['score'],
event['competitions'][0]['competitors'][1]['team']
['abbreviation'],
event['competitions'][0]['competitors'][1]['score'])
url = espn.get_game_url("boxscore", "nba", 400900498)
json_data = espn.get_url(url)
print(json_data['gamepackageJSON']['boxscore']['teams'][0]['team']['name'])
ppjson(json_data['gamepackageJSON']['boxscore']['teams'][0]['statistics'][0])
url = espn.get_game_url("playbyplay", "ncf", 400868977)
json_data = espn.get_url(url)
print(
json_data['gamepackageJSON']['drives']['previous'][0]['plays'][0]['text'])
# a few requests will return a beautiful soup objects instead of json
url = espn.get_game_url("boxscore", "nhl", 400885533)
soup = espn.get_url(url)
away_team = soup.select('.team-info a')[0].text
home_team = soup.select('.team-info a')[1].text
away_score = soup.select('.team-info .gp-awayScore')[0].text
def test_nhl_boxscore(self):
data = espn.get_url(espn.get_game_url("boxscore", "nhl", 400885533))
away_score = int(data.select('.h2')[0].text.strip())
home_score = int(data.select('.h2')[1].text.strip())
self.assertEqual(away_score, 5)
self.assertEqual(home_score, 1)
def boxscore_helper(self, league, espn_id):
data = espn.get_url(espn.get_game_url("boxscore", league, espn_id))
self.assertEqual(data['gameId'], espn_id)
def test_wnba_boxscore(self):
data = espn.get_url(espn.get_game_url("boxscore", "wnba", 400910431))
away_score = int(data.select('.team-info span')[0].text.strip())
home_score = int(data.select('.team-info span')[1].text.strip())
self.assertEqual(away_score, 85)
self.assertEqual(home_score, 94)
def test_mlb_boxscore(self):
data = espn.get_url(espn.get_game_url("boxscore", "mlb", 370328119))
away_score = int(data.select('.team-info span')[0].text.strip())
home_score = int(data.select('.team-info span')[1].text.strip())
self.assertEqual(away_score, 1)
self.assertEqual(home_score, 3)