Free NBA Play by Play Data

[vivtalla]

I've been searching the web for free NBA play by play data - preferably formatted as a CSV or excel file - to do some NBA analysis, but have been unsuccessful finding what I'm looking for.

Does anybody know where I could go to find this data/have any tips on how to go about finding this data?

For a general idea of what I'm looking for, I found something similar at this URL - https://www.bigdataball.com/nba-histori ... n=glossary. The only problem is the data here is rather pricey.

Thanks in advance!

[DSMok1]

This should have most of what you need: https://github.com/ethanluoyc/statsnba-playbyplay

[vivtalla]

Ok I'll definitely try it out. Thanks so much!

[Rd11490]

You should be able to find anything you need here.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=19WhE2 ... fooejMTwNo

[vivtalla]

Wow this is awesome, and helps me out a ton. Thanks!

[nbacouchside]

This should have most of what you need: https://github.com/ethanluoyc/statsnba-playbyplay

Can someone who knows where things are on github explain to me where I can go to see how to actually utilize the statsnba-playbyplay package? I installed it, but I have no idea wht it can do or how to use it to scrape play-by-play or parse it.

Sorry for the (probably) stupid question.

[Rd11490]

I've never use the packaged, but from what I can tell these are the two scripts you would run.

https://github.com/ethanluoyc/statsnba- ... er/scripts

You would run them as:
python PATH/TO/INSTALLED/scripts/download_playbyplay.py -i <GAME_ID> -o <FILE_TO_SAVE>

[nbacouchside]

I've never use the packaged, but from what I can tell these are the two scripts you would run.

https://github.com/ethanluoyc/statsnba- ... er/scripts

You would run them as:
python PATH/TO/INSTALLED/scripts/download_playbyplay.py -i <GAME_ID> -o <FILE_TO_SAVE>

So if I wanted to use these scripts to pull a full seasons worth of data, I would have to modify them, probably?

[Rd11490]

Yeah, you'd either need to do that, or import the project and write some more code to manually call the methods that those scripts call.