How to get games details of specific year?

[idohi]

I am trying to get all games details in a specific year. The classes in "nba_py.game" module required "game_id", but I need details about all the games. Help will be greatly appreciated.

[KnifeyMoloko]

I'm actually doing a similar thing right now, so here's what I found:

• Don't start with nba_py.game. You'll want to use this module once you have the game ids for the year/season already.
• The nba_py.teams module has TeamGameLogs class that should return basic records for all of the games in a given season for a given team.

The way I go about this is:

(1) Get team ids from nba_py.TeamList and filter out the ones that are no longer active (the list there will contain historical NBA teams too). (2) loop through team ids returned from (1) with nba_py.teams.TeamGameLogs to get the game details, e.g: nba_py.teams.TeamGameLogs("1610612749", "2017-18").json will get you games from 2017-18 for Milwaukee. (3) You can use the games details from (2) to make further calls to nba_py.games, since you will have all the game ids you need.

EDITED Make sure you have requests-cache installed. Otherwise you won't be able to pull in a whole season's worth of data for all teams. With requests-cache it works like a charm.

[idohi]

I tried to extract teams with nba_py.team.TeamList() but some how it is stuck (request-cache is installed).

[KnifeyMoloko]

I tried to extract teams with nba_py.team.TeamList() but some how it is stuck (request-cache is installed).

Are you able to get data from other nba_py modules?

[idohi]

Following 2 examples: one when I get the data and the other when I don't. [When I get data] from nba_py.constants import TEAMS team_id = TEAMS['ATL']['id'] (team_id: '1610612737')

[When I don't get data] from nba_py.player import get_player player_id = get_player('Lebron', 'James')

Maybe its a memory issue, maybe I don't use requests-cache properly.

[KnifeyMoloko]

There 2 things to note here:

1. The nba_py.constants import TEAMSyou're doing in example nr 1 doesn't actually fetch any data from nba.com. Instead, it reads the _teamid property from a dictionary stored in the nba_py module's own files, i.e. from your own hard drive. That's why you can retrieve it without any hassle.
2. The example nr 2 will probably work when you rewrite is this way:

   get_player = player.get_player("Lebron", last_name="James")
   print(get_player)

   (I didn't check that code specifically, as I'm not fetching player data myself, but here is a good resource for nba_py method calls in general: https://www.slothparadise.com/nba_py-documentation/)

If you try to run the code I pasted here it should get you Lebron's player id. If it won't, you should at least get an error that will be helpful in further troubleshooting.

[idohi]

It works! Thanks for the assist. I installed the package following the instructions in the link you have sent with a small change. (https://www.slothparadise.com/nba_py-documentation/)

1. git clone https://github.com/seemethere/nba_py
2. cd nba_py-master
3. pip install .

Now, the package is working properly.