Boxscore¶

LiveBoxscoreLoader loads boxscore data for a game and creates LiveBoxscoreItem objects for each player and team

The following code will load boxscore data for game id “0021900001” from a file located in a subdirectory of the /data directory

from pbpstats.data_loader import LiveBoxscoreFileLoader, LiveBoxscoreLoader

source_loader = LiveBoxscoreFileLoader("/data")
boxscore_loader = LiveBoxscoreLoader("0021900001", source_loader)
print(boxscore_loader.items[0].data) # prints dict with a player's boxscore data for game

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.boxscore.loader.LiveBoxscoreLoader(game_id, source_loader)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.base.LiveLoaderBase

Loads data.nba.com source boxscore data for game. Team/Player data is stored in items attribute as LiveBoxscoreItem objects

Parameters:	game_id (str) – NBA Stats Game Id source_loader – `LiveBoxscoreFileLoader` or `LiveBoxscoreWebLoader` object

data¶: returns raw JSON response data

data_provider = 'live'¶

parent_object = 'Game'¶

resource = 'Boxscore'¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.boxscore.file.LiveBoxscoreFileLoader(file_directory)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.file_loader.LiveFileLoader

A LiveBoxscoreFileLoader object should be instantiated and passed into LiveBoxscoreLoader when loading data from file

Parameters:	file_directory (str) – Directory in which data should be loaded from. The specific file location will be live_<game_id>.json in the /game_details subdirectory.

load_data(game_id)[source]¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.boxscore.web.LiveBoxscoreWebLoader(file_directory=None)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.web_loader.LiveWebLoader

LiveBoxscoreWebLoader object should be instantiated and passed into LiveBoxscoreLoader when loading data directly from the NBA Stats API

Parameters:	file_directory (str) – (optional, use it if you want to store the response data on disk) Directory in which data should be either stored. The specific file location will be live_<game_id>.json in the /game_details subdirectory. If not provided response data will not be saved on disk.

load_data(game_id)[source]¶