🏀 nba-api

NBA web API for player per game averages and other stats.

• All player data is scraped from basketball-reference.com and then seeded into the SQLite Database using Knex. Player data can then be accessed after starting your Express server.

how to use

• Fork and clone.
• cd into scraper and run npm install to install web-scraper dependencies
• cd into api and run yarn to install API dependencies
• Update your .env.sample (inside of api) with your player_stats_url and PORT variables
  • Get rid of the .sample file-ending and add the player stats: per game URL
• While in api, run knex migrate:latest to create the SQLite db and knex seed:run to seed the db w/ the web-scraper data
• Still inside api, run yarn start to start the API
• API will be running on localhost:9000/api/players

web-scraper

• Cheerio
• Cheerio-Tableparser
• Request-Promise

back-end

• Node.js
• Express
• Knex
• SQLite

authors

• Sawyer Zincone -initial work- szincone ♣️

license

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.