Frequency of data updates

[Feggla]

I've been using this package for a few years now for some personal projects and really appreciate the work you've put into it. Just wondering about api update frequency - at the moment the data I get updates daily at around 6am ET. Is there any way to update more frequently using this package, specifically for NBA fantasy stats?

Side-question: Played around with the api a lot and can't find a way to get daily NBA player stats - is this currently possible?

[cwendt94]

The box score info should be updated real time but you would need to setup some type of re fetch logic on a certain interval to get those updates.

You can get a players daily stats by using player_info call. That will return the stats of each game they played.

[Feggla]

The box_score method doesn't really return the data I'm after, I get all of my stats from the scoreboard method, but I'm unable to get live stats for either. I'll post my a quick example below, appreciate you taking a look:

`league = League(league_id=xxx, year=2024, espn_s2='xxx', swid='xxx')
box_scores = league.scoreboard(matchupPeriod=7)

for matchups in box_scores:
print(matchups.home_team, matchups.home_team_cats)`

Output:
Team(xxx) {'PTS': {'score': 2.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, 'BLK': {'score': 1.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, 'STL': {'score': 0.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, 'AST': {'score': 4.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, 'REB': {'score': 7.0, 'result': 'TIE'}, '38': {'score': 0.0, 'result': 'TIE'}, 'TO': {'score': 2.0, 'result': 'TIE'}, 'FGM': {'score': 1.0, 'result': None}, 'FGA': {'score': 3.0, 'result': None}, 'FTM': {'score': 0.0, 'result': None}, 'FTA': {'score': 0.0, 'result': None}, '3PTM': {'score': 0.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, '3PTA': {'score': 1.0, 'result': None}, 'FG%': {'score': 0.33333333, 'result': 'LOSS'}, 'FT%': {'score': 0.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}, '3PT%': {'score': 0.0, 'result': 'LOSS'}}

This output has the category data from the previous day, and does not include any of the data from today's games, which concluded a few hours ago. The box_scores method also returns the matchup score prior to todays games.

[Feggla]

Will give that a go for box_scores - is there an equivalent for the 'scoreboard' method, which is where I get my category data from?

[cwendt94]

Box scores should also show all of your category data, here is the info on the fields https://github.com/cwendt94/espn-api/wiki/Box-Score-Class-Basketball

[Feggla]

Have just tried the below, approximately an hour into the current matchday - unfortunately the scoreboard stats still returns data from the previous day, and doesn't include any current matchday info.

box_scores = league.box_scores(matchup_period=7, matchup_total=False)

for matchups in box_scores:
print(matchups.away_team, matchups.away_stats)

[cwendt94]

Hmm you might have to also pass in the scoring_period as well. I will try to play around with my league once a game starts to see if it will return updated data.

[Feggla]

Any luck with this one? I'll have another try with scoring_period in the next couple of days while matches are live.

[Feggla]

I've had no luck getting up to date stats from the box scores - any further ideas?

[cwendt94]

Sorry, I have been busy the last couple weeks before the holidays. I haven't been able to play around with it but hopefully will have time in the next week to see if I can find a way to get live updates.

[Feggla]

Have come back around to this and still no luck getting up-to-date info when pulling either the Scoreboard or Boxscores classes. Am I right in assuming it might not be possible to pull the current info?

[Feggla]

Running into the same issue for 24/25 leagues again unfortunately - I've looked through the base code but nothing jumping out as to why updates are only occurring once daily. Any chance anyone has an idea on this?

[cwendt94]

Ahh okay that makes sense, I know box_score will definitely get the live stats. I will have to look into scoreboard API call a little and see how its being grabbed!

[cwendt94]

From a quick look at the API and the data ESPN returns I think for matchup it will only be after the end of games for the day. I think the only way to get some live information is through box_score

[Feggla]

Any idea where that gets determined? I'd love to take a look and see if I can do some work on getting live scoreboard stats, as using the box_score would be pretty tough for my use case.

[Feggla]

You know what, box_score does have a .home_stats and .away_stats attribute (which has the category data structures similarly to scoreboard.home_team_cats), but same issue with not updating with current stats.

[cwendt94]

Interesting yeah I would think it can get the latest as you see it being updated on ESPN's website. If you want to look into it a little more that would be great! This is the API call that is getting the information from

https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/fba/seasons/2025/segments/0/leagues/501585302?view=modular&view=mNav&view=mMatchupScore&view=mScoreboard&view=mSettings&view=mTopPerformers&view=mTeam

This is a public league so you should be able to see all of the data. Scoreboard and Box Score grab from the schedule field.