espn_api.py

## Getting Draft Data via ESPN Fantasy Football API
import requests
import pandas as pd
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

# get draft details
def get_draft_details(league_id, season_id, espn_cookies):
    headers  = {
        'Connection': 'keep-alive',
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36',
        }
    #url = "https://fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/{}/segments/0/leagues/{}?view=mDraftDetail&view=mSettings&view=mTeam&view=modular&view=mNav".format(season_id, league_id)
    # got this url from the network tab in chrome and worked for older season
    url = "https://fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/leagueHistory/{}?view=mDraftDetail&view=mSettings&view=mTeam&view=modular&view=mNav&seasonId={}".format(league_id, season_id)
    r = requests.get(url,
                    headers=headers,
                    cookies=espn_cookies)
    espn_raw_data = r.json()
    espn_draft_detail = espn_raw_data[0]
    draft_picks = espn_draft_detail['draftDetail']['picks']
    df = pd.DataFrame(draft_picks)
    # get only columns we need in draft detail
    draft_df = df[['overallPickNumber', 'playerId', 'teamId']].copy()
    return draft_df

# get player info
def get_player_info(season_id, espn_cookies):
    custom_headers  = {
        'Connection': 'keep-alive',
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36',
        'x-fantasy-filter': '{"filterActive":null}',
        'x-fantasy-platform': 'kona-PROD-1dc40132dc2070ef47881dc95b633e62cebc9913',
        'x-fantasy-source': 'kona'
    }
    url = "https://fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/{}/players?scoringPeriodId=0&view=players_wl".format(season_id)
    r = requests.get(url,
                    cookies=espn_cookies,
                    headers=custom_headers)
    player_data = r.json()
    df = pd.DataFrame(player_data)
    # get only needed columns for players
    player_df = df[['defaultPositionId','fullName','id','proTeamId']].copy()
    # rename in column
    player_df.rename(columns = {'id':'player_id'}, inplace = True)
    return player_df

def get_team_info(season_id):
    headers  = {
        'Connection': 'keep-alive',
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36',
        }
    url = "https://fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/ffl/seasons/{}?view=proTeamSchedules_wl".format(season_id)
    r = requests.get(url,
                    headers=headers)
    team_data = r.json()
    team_names = team_data['settings']['proTeams']
    df = pd.DataFrame(team_names)
    # get only needed columns for teams
    team_df = df[['id', 'location', 'name']].copy()
    team_df["team name"] = team_df['location'].astype(str) +" "+ team_df["name"]
    # rename in column
    team_df.rename(columns = {'id':'team_id'}, inplace = True)
    return team_df