Schedules & Scores API for Streaming Live Sports Stats - MSNBC

gistfile1.py

import pytz
import datetime
import time
import urllib2
import json
import os
import elementtree.ElementTree as ET

# e.g. http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/ticker/data/gamesMSNBC.js.asp?jsonp=true&sport=MLB&period=20120929
url = 'http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/ticker/data/gamesMSNBC.js.asp?jsonp=true&sport=%s&period=%d'

def today(league):
  yyyymmdd = int(datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone('US/Pacific')).strftime("%Y%m%d"))
  games = []
  
  try:
    f = urllib2.urlopen(url % (league, yyyymmdd))
    jsonp = f.read()
    f.close()
    json_str = jsonp.replace('shsMSNBCTicker.loadGamesData(', '').replace(');', '')
    json_parsed = json.loads(json_str)
    for game_str in json_parsed.get('games', []):
      game_tree = ET.XML(game_str)
      visiting_tree = game_tree.find('visiting-team')
      home_tree = game_tree.find('home-team')
      gamestate_tree = game_tree.find('gamestate')
      home = home_tree.get('nickname')
      away = visiting_tree.get('nickname')
      os.environ['TZ'] = 'US/Eastern'
      start = int(time.mktime(time.strptime('%s %d' % (gamestate_tree.get('gametime'), yyyymmdd), '%I:%M %p %Y%m%d')))
      del os.environ['TZ']
      
      games.append({
        'league': league,
        'start': start,
        'home': home,
        'away': away,
        'home-score': home_tree.get('score'),
        'away-score': visiting_tree.get('score'),
        'status': gamestate_tree.get('status'),
        'clock': gamestate_tree.get('display_status1'),
        'clock-section': gamestate_tree.get('display_status2')
      })
  except Exception, e:
    print e
  
  return games

if __name__ == "__main__":
  for league in ['NFL', 'MLB', 'NBA', 'NHL']:
    print today(league)
    time.sleep(30)

Hi I was wondering how active this is?
I'm looking to develop something for this upcoming MLB season, however I can't get the json games to return when manipulating the API call.
Meaning if I'm trying to get the MLB scores from May 20th, 2014, I would manipulate the yyyymmdd to 20140520 and hardcode the sport to be MLB. My resulting call is: http://scores.nbcsports.msnbc.com/ticker/data/gamesMSNBC.js.asp?jsonp=true&sport=MLB&period=20140520

the return is: shsMSNBCTicker.loadGamesData({ "sport": "MLB", "period": "20140520", "games": [ ]} );

I was wondering if this is due to '2014' being a legacy year and the upcoming year will be active once the season starts?

Thanks for your help,
Kevin

What what I can tell msnbc has changed their endpoint rendering this code disabled.
I found msnbc has add a random key at the end of their calls like the call below.

/ticker/data/gamesNEW.js.asp?json=true&sport=NBA$period=20150119&random=1421714943151

This would be considered a breach of their terms of use correct? Even if using it for strictly personal use?

I think MSNBC finally dropped this 'API' yesterday.

Yeah, too bad, this isn't working anymore. :(
Has anyone found an alternative?

New url:
url = 'http://scores.nbcsports.com/ticker/data/gamesNEW.js.asp?jsonp=true&sport=%s&period=%d&random=%d'

    yyyymmdd = int(dt.strftime("%Y%m%d"))
    timestamp = int(round(time.time() * 1000))
    games = []

and:

f = urllib2.urlopen(url % (league, yyyymmdd,timestamp))

Here's a forked gist: https://gist.github.com/Robotto/9db27ceead01c3ce7ece6406881f8c92