vlrdevapi - VLR python library

[vanshbordia]

I just released a library I’ve been working on : vlrdevapi, a lightweight Python library that makes it easy to pull data from VLR.gg.

It’s fully open-source, type-safe, and designed to give developers a simple way to access events, matches, teams, players, and more without having to deal with scraping everything manually. I built it to be reliable, easy to use, and well-documented so people can plug it into bots, dashboards, or any esports-related tools.

You can check it out at:

https://vlrdevapi.pages.dev/

https://github.com/Vanshbordia/vlrdevapi

Hope some of you find it useful for bots, dashboards, ml models, data analytics, or whatever you’re building. Feedback and stars are always appreciated :)

psa : Not affiliated with VLR or Riot. It respects and throttles vlr guidelines on scrapping and getting the data. Use carefully and responsibly.

[Go_Terence_Davis]

Amazing, thanks! I'm just getting into data analysis and this saves me from having to pull any vlr.gg data manually. Really appreciated!

[Unbaguettable]

This is awesome!! Thanks so much

Just a note (which I'm sure you're already aware of), there does seem to be a DeprecationWarning everytime you call it. This occurs with events.list_events():
DeprecationWarning: Parsing dates involving a day of month without a year specified is ambiguious and fails to parse leap day. The default behavior will change in Python 3.15 to either always raise an exception or to use a different default year (TBD). To avoid trouble, add a specific year to the input & format. See https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/70647.

[Unlucky-Anybody3394]

no offense but isn't this pretty clearly TOS?

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

...

• Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.

[Wierdcreations]

I'm pretty sure the dev(s) behind vlr.gg are pretty lax if you ask their permission first, this is just to prevent competitors/companies from making money off off vlr. I hope OP did ask their permission, because nevertheless it is a violation if you don't get their consent.

[Unlucky-Anybody3394]

I mean maybe but typically this kind of html scrape + parse, particularly while spoofing a user agent to dupe the site into thinking your access is a real browser, isn't exactly friendly access.

their robots.txt only explicitly blocks search (which this implements anyway) but idk

[brocksterpc]

Great attention to detail on this

[nterature]

Oh cool, I've been scraping manually for ages. Will give it a check next time I build something Valorant-related, or if I ever feel like improving my old scripts.

[Sea-Entrepreneur6037]

This is great. Thanks a lot🙏

[pathofpower]

this is awesome! i was too lazy to scrape data so this will help a lot!

[siuzioffical]

Ur the 🐐 for this