Get roster list containing jersey numbers and player names from a NHL API gameid. (You could modify to get other fields if you wanted to).

nhl_roster.py

#Get roster reports from NHL's official API
#https://gitlab.com/dword4/nhlapi/-/tree/master/
#https://www.kevinsidwar.com/iot/2017/7/1/the-undocumented-nhl-stats-api
import requests

class Person: #I don't have any reason for making this a class besides dot notation
    def __init__(self, n, name):
        self.n = n
        self.name = name

class Team:
    def __init__(self, _id, name, roster, whomst):
        self.id = _id
        self.name = name
        self.roster = roster
        self.home = True if whomst == "home" else False

ROOT = "https://statsapi.web.nhl.com"
GAMES_ENDPOINT = ROOT + "/api/v1/game/"
GAMES_APPEND = "/feed/live" #ENDPOINT + gameid + APPEND = :)

test_gid="2015020597"

def GetRosters(gid):
    '''
    Enter Game ID, receive dict containing two teamnames, each teamname entry is a Team object
    containing an id, name, roster, and home bool field.
    the roster field is a list of Person objects, each Person object has two fields: n (jersey number) and name (first/last)
    '''
    r = requests.get(GAMES_ENDPOINT+gid+GAMES_APPEND)
    j = r.json()["gameData"]
    j_teams = j["teams"]
    season = j["game"]["season"]

    f_teams = {}

    #the players section in j["gameData"] doesn't include what team the player was ON during the game!!!!
    #just the CURRENT team! what the CRINGE! holy CRINGE! im NOT pogging!
    #so we must urghghhgh make another 2 api requests hahahaha whatever
    for loc, t in j_teams.items():  #loc = 'away'/'home'
        team = []
        endpoint = ROOT + t["link"] + "/roster"
        m = requests.get(endpoint, params = {"season": season})
        for x in m.json()["roster"]:
            try:
                person = Person(x.get("jerseyNumber"), x["person"]["fullName"])
                team.append(person)
            except KeyError:
                print("keyerr", x, endpoint)
        f_teams[t["teamName"]] = Team(t["id"], t["name"], team, loc)