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Get NBA games from the Stattleship API.
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## install and load the stattleshipR package | |
devtools::install_github("stattleship/stattleship-r") | |
library(stattleshipR) | |
## get your API token stattleship.com | |
## set API token | |
set_token('YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN') | |
## load NBA teams data frame | |
load("nba_teams.Rdata") | |
## Set up your env't | |
options(stringsAsFactors=FALSE) | |
## set params according to | |
## developers.stattleship.com | |
sport <- "basketball" | |
league <- "nba" | |
ep <- "games" | |
## leave q_body empty to get for all players | |
## for specific player or team use slug | |
## set time frame e.g. since="yesterday" | |
## for finished games status="ended" | |
## set season_id | |
q_body <- list(season_id="nba-2015-2016") | |
## get the games | |
games <- ss_get_result(sport=sport, league=league, ep=ep, query=q_body, version=1, verbose=TRUE, walk=TRUE) | |
## bind the data together | |
gs <- lapply(games, function(x) x$games) | |
nba_games <- rbindlist(gs) | |
## if planning to write as a csv drop officials var | |
## nested list won't write to csv | |
## nba_games <- nba_games[, official_ids := NULL] | |
## add team details from nba_teams if retrieved | |
## nba_games$home_team_slug <- nba_teams[match(nba_games$home_team_id, nba_teams$id),]$slug | |
## nba_games$away_team_slug <- nba_teams[match(nba_games$away_team_id, nba_teams$id),]$slug | |
## set the date | |
nba_games$date<-as.Date(nba_games$started_at) | |
## get rid of games not yet played if so desired | |
## nba_games_played <- subset(nba_games, away_team_outcome!="undecided") |
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