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cpsievert / pitchRx

Tools for scraping MLB Gameday data and Visualizing PITCHf/x
http://cpsievert.github.io/pitchRx/
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Illegal characters found in URL #28

Closed thevorpalblade closed 9 years ago

thevorpalblade commented 9 years ago

When running scrape(start = "2007-04-01", end = "2007-04-30", connect=mydb) I get the output: If file names don't print right away, please be patient. Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Illegal characters found in URL

However: scrape(start = "2008-04-01", end = "2008-04-30", connect=mydb)
works with no errors.

cpsievert commented 9 years ago

PITCHf/x data isn't available before 2008.

thevorpalblade commented 9 years ago

I'm pretty sure it is, though. Here's some from 4/6/2007:

http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2007/month_04/day_06/gid_2007_04_06_arimlb_wasmlb_1/inning/

cpsievert commented 9 years ago

Those are x/y locations, not PITCHf/x. This won't work for reasons similar to #25.