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So it seems that in their transition to the SI.com domain (from sportsillustrated.cnn.com), the links from which I was previously able to get scoreboard and PBP JSON files (e.g. http://data.si.com/jsonp/basketball/nba ... board.json) no longer work. Does anyone know if they are still available, but at another URL? I wasn't able to find anything using Chrome developer tools.

I don't really want to switch to NBA.com if they still don't have first names or initials for the players in the PBP

this is the pbp:
http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... score=true

for this game:
http://www.si.com/game/844051/play-by-play/

sndesai1 wrote:this is the pbp:
http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... score=true

for this game:
http://www.si.com/game/844051/play-by-play/

Many thanks!

Hmm, to my dismay they also completely changed the structure of the JSON. Time for more code changes...

Anyone else using the new SI data? For some queries (e.g. http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... e=20131026), it returns "Array" instead of the expected JSON (e.g. http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... e=20131025).

kohanz wrote:Anyone else using the new SI data? For some queries (e.g. http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... e=20131026), it returns "Array" instead of the expected JSON (e.g. http://www.si.com/pbp/liveupdate?json=1 ... e=20131025).

Yeah... so I'm stupid. That's what returned for dates on which there were no games.

Thanks for the heads up on this. I use the SI JSON data for my win probability graphs, but it's been an offseason project of mine to switch to the NBA.com JSON data (so I can start adding seasons going back to ~1996-97).

But the SI data is so much easier to work with. Very nicely structured. The NBA.com data is a mess. The fact that they use just last names in the play descriptions makes me irrationally angry.