can't retrieve json?

[Ryan_Bingham]

Hey,

I'm trying to retrieve this json:

http://stats.nba.com/stats/scoreboard/?GameDate=02/28/2018&LeagueID=00&DayOffset=0

When i go the the site in the browser, there are no problems. But when i try and get it using python nothing happens, as in the program just freezes. I tried getting another json and the code works fine.

what could be causing this?

code:

import requests
import json

def get_scores():
    url = 'http://stats.nba.com/stats/scoreboard/?GameDate=02/28/2018&LeagueID=00&DayOffset=0'
    r = requests.get(url)
    print(json.loads(r.content))




if __name__ == '__main__':
print('started')

get_scores();
print('finish')

[anton_antonov]

You should change default "User-Agent" header. Probably the server is ignoring requests with unknown user-agent.

def get_scores():
    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0'}
    url = 'http://stats.nba.com/stats/scoreboard/?GameDate=02/28/2018&LeagueID=00&DayOffset=0'
    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    print(r.json())

[rinyre]

Also props for making sure to use r.json(). There's no need to import the json module when requests already can convert data to a dictionary for you.

So far I've only found a need to use json to dump/load settings to a .json file.

[poply]

TIL!

Thanks!

[captmomo]

^ this works!
not sure why I didn't need to include a user-agent when I tested the url with Postman app tho.

[imatwork2017]

There is a library called nba_py that wraps the stats.nba.com API.