MLB-StatsAPI 0.0.5

MLB Stats API Wrapper for Python

MLB-StatsAPI

Python wrapper for MLB Stats API

Created by Todd Roberts

https://github.com/toddrob99/MLB-StatsAPI

Installation

MLB-StatsAPI is listed on the Python Package Index, and the preferred installation method is pip for all platforms. If you install manually, be sure to also install requests.

pip install MLB-StatsAPI

Available Functions

• statsapi.get() - make calls directly to MLB StatsAPI endpoints; supports the most flexibility in request parameters, and returns raw json data

• statsapi.meta() - retrieve available values from StatsAPI for use in other queries, or look up descriptions for values found in API results

• statsapi.notes() - retrieve notes for a given endpoint, including a list of required parameters, as well as hints for some endpoints

• statsapi.schedule() - retrieve a list of games on a given date/range and/or team/opponent

• statsapi.boxscore() - generate a formatted boxscore for a given game

• statsapi.linescore() - generate a formatted linescore for a given game

• statsapi.roster() - generate a list of players on a team's roster

• statsapi.standings() - generate a formatted list of standings for a given league/date

• statsapi.team_leaders() - generate a list of a team's leaders for a given stat

• statsapi.league_leaders() - generate a list of stat leaders for all-time (single season) or a given season

• statsapi.player_stats() - get a list of a player's career or season stats

• statsapi.last_game() - get the game id for the given team's most recent game

• statsapi.next_game() - get the game id for the given team's next game

• statsapi.game_highlights() - generate a list of highlights with video links for a given game

• statsapi.game_pace() - get information about pace of game for a given season (back to 1999)

• statsapi.game_scoring_plays() - get a list of scoring plays for a given game

Example Use

Print the number of games won by the Oakland Athletics in 2018

Use statsapi.schedule() to retrieve all A's games for 2018, and use sum() to count records in the resultset where the A's were the winning_team.

print('The A\'s won %s games in 2018.' % sum(1 for x in statsapi.schedule(team=133,start_date='01/01/2018',end_date='12/31/2018') if x.get('winning_team','')=='Oakland Athletics'))

Print the linescore for all games the Phillies won in July 2008

Use statsapi.schedule() to retrieve all games for July 2018, run the resulting dict through a list comprehension to iterate over the records where the Phillies are the winning team, and feed the game_id into statsapi_linescore().

for x in [y for y in statsapi.schedule(team=143,start_date='07/01/2008',end_date='07/31/2008') if y.get('winning_team','')=='Philadelphia Phillies']:
    print('%s\nWinner: %s, Loser: %s\n%s\n\n' % (x['game_date'], x['winning_team'], x['losing_team'], statsapi.linescore(x['game_id'])))

Print the Phillies 40-man Roster on opening day of the 2018 season

Use statsapi.get('season') to retrieve the dates for the 2018 season, feed the opening day date into statsapi.roster().

print('Phillies 40-man roster on opening day of the 2018 season:\n%s' % statsapi.roster(143,'40Man',date=statsapi.get('season',{'seasonId':2018,'sportId':1})['seasons'][0]['regularSeasonStartDate']))

Print the boxscore and linescore from the A's most recent game (which may be in progress)

Use statsapi.last_game() to retrieve the most recent A's game and feed the gamePk into statsapi.boxscore() and statsapi.linescore().

most_recent_game_id = statsapi.last_game(133)
print(statsapi.boxscore(most_recent_game_id))
print(statsapi.linescore(most_recent_game_id))

Find the team with the longest name

Use statsapi.get('teams') to retrieve all active team names, then feed into max() to find the longest value and its length

longest_team_name = max([x['name'] for x in statsapi.get('teams',{'sportIds':1,'activeStatus':'Yes','fields':'teams,name'})['teams']],key=len)
print('The team with the longest name is %s, at %s characters.' % (longest_team_name, len(longest_team_name)))

Print the standings from July 4, 2018

Use statsapi.standings() with the date parameters

print(statsapi.standings(date='07/04/2018'))

Print the top 5 team leaders in walks for the 2008 Phillies

Use statsapi.team_leaders()

print(statsapi.team_leaders(143,'walks',limit=5,season=2008))

Print the top 10 all time single season leaders in doubles

use statsapi.league_leaders()

print(statsapi.league_leaders('doubles',statGroup='hitting',limit=10))

Print Chase Utley's career hitting stats

use statsapi.get() to call the sports_players endpoint for the 2008 World Series, lookup Chase Utley's person id from the results, and pass it into statsapi.player_stats() using type='hitting' and group='career'

print( statsapi.player_stats(next(x['id'] for x in statsapi.get('sports_players',{'season':2008,'gameType':'W'})['people'] if x['fullName']=='Chase Utley'), 'hitting', 'career') )

Print a list of scoring plays from the 4/28/2019 Marlins @ Phillies game

print( statsapi.game_scoring_plays(567074) )