statsapiclient 0.1.3

A wrapper around the NHL’s JSON API.

statsapiclient: A client for the NHL stats API

Purpose

To provide a Python client to access the NHL's JSON API including game, play, and player data.

Installation

pip install statsapiclient

Modules

Schedule

get_games

Returns a list of games contained within the instantiated date or date range.

Games

game

get_box_score

get_line_score

get_play_by_play

Teams

get_active

Returns a list of all active teams.

get_active_by_conference

Returns a list of all active teams in a given conference.

get_active_by_division

Returns a list of all active teams in a given division.

Examples

Games from date:

from statsapiclient.schedule import Schedule


s = Schedule('2019-01-01')
games = s.get_games()

print(games[0]['gamePk'])    # 2018020612

Game data:

from statsapiclient.games.game import Game

g = Game('2018020612')

box_score = g.get_box_score()
line_score = g.get_line_score()
play_by_play = g.get_play_by_play()