BASKETBALL HACK DAY APIs/TOOLS/ RESOURCES
- TheSportsDB - Free Open Sports Metadata and Artwork API https://www.thesportsdb.com/league/4424
- Design patterns for UI - http://ui-patterns.com/patterns
- Free fonts - https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/best-free-fonts-for-designers-1233380
Node.js client for nba.com API endpoints https://github.com/bttmly/nba
**NBA Stats API via Basketball Referencehttps://github.com/jaebradley/basketball_reference_web_scraper \
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NBA basketball website using nba_py for people to learn how to use NBA Stats Python API. https://github.com/huyle333/bballfast
An R API for basketball-reference.com https://github.com/rtelmore/ballr
Automation, Web API, OAuth2, Data Pipelining, XML Parsing, Data visualization https://github.com/RodellRodriguez/fantasy-basketball-yahoo
A REST API for the leaderboard in our Basketball Kinect game. (GMIT Hackathon 2017) https://github.com/sinderpl/basketballApi
R package that documents the NBA API with additional functionality https://github.com/imadmali/NBAapi
🏀 React-Native clone of the Facebook Basketball game https://github.com/FaridSafi/react-native-basketball
Scraping statistics, predicting NBA player performance with machine learning, and optimising lineups for Draft Kings. Capstone Project for Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree by Udacity. https://github.com/KengoA/fantasy-basketball
NBA Shots visualization https://github.com/GiulianoCornacchia/basket-viz
- Seat Geek has great API for venues, schedules: http://seatgeek.com/build see events http://platform.seatgeek.com/#events (Get red sox games: http://api.seatgeek.com/2/events?performers.slug=boston-red-sox ) and venues http://platform.seatgeek.com/#venues access Fenway info like http://api.seatgeek.com/2/venues/21 It is completely open without any restriction. Very easy to use. 2014 and 2015 SPONSOR THANK YOU!
- Stubhub https://developer.stubhub.com/store/
- Ticketmaster (need access to their private api) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15835558/ticketmaster-api-buy-tickets-within-website
- Ticketcity http://www.programmableweb.com/api/ticketcity
- Team Colors - http://teamcolors.arc90.com/ - is a reference of HEX values for the brand colors of major league sporting teams. Includes SVG logos. Source on GitHub: https://github.com/arc90/teamcolors
- Team Logos as an icon font http://daigofuji.github.io/bbclub-font/
Other public data resources that you might want to consider for mash-ups/correlation (hint: sign-up for any API keys now so you're ready to start building):
- Intuit's (2019 sponsor) Open Source projects can be found here:
- https://opensource.intuit.com/
- https://github.com/intuit
- QuickBooks integrations can be found here:
- https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/homepage
- https://developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/develop
- Weather - http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/, https://developer.forecast.io/, https://openweathermap.org/api, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2
- US Census data - http://www.census.gov/developers/ https://censusreporter.org/
- US public health - http://www.healthdata.gov/
- NYC - https://data.cityofnewyork.us/
- Music data - https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/ or http://www.last.fm/api
- Movies data - http://www.deanclatworthy.com/imdb/ http://www.omdbapi.com/
- Programmable Web's API directory - http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
- Google's API directory - http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
- Azure's API directory - https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/data?price=free
- Open Tok: http://www.tokbox.com/opentok/api/documentation/gettingstarted
- Boston https://data.cityofboston.gov/
- parking data free api http://www.parkwhiz.com/developers/
- Bitcoin APIs: https://bitcoinaverage.com/api.htm https://www.kraken.com/help/apihttps://www.bitstamp.net/api/ https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overviewhttps://www.bitfinex.com/pages/api
Resources/How-to’s/Inspirations/Existing tools for ideas, etc..
- NBA Advanced Stats https://stats.nba.com/
- Databases for sabermetricians, Part One by Colin Wyershttp://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/databases-for-sabermetricians-part-one/
- Fisher Baseball. http://www.fisherbaseball.com
- How to build a retrosheet database http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/blog_article/building-a-retrosheet-database-the-short-form/
- Baseline Cherrypicker - Ben Schmidt's visualization of cumulative baseball statistics
- Interesting read from Pennant App creator Steve Vargahttp://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/pennant-ipad-openframeworks/
- How to Create Pitch Charts with Python - Blog post on scraping pitch data from yahoo.com using Python.
- How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour
- Dot Cloud https://www.dotcloud.com/
- Heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com/
- Google https://developers.google.com/cloud/
- Nearly Free Speech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
- Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/
- Amazon AWS http://aws.amazon.com/
- Azure: full-featured public cloud with Web Sites and some other services handy in hackathons available free - http://aka.ms/iaas
- GitHub Pages: Websites for you and your projects. Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. https://pages.github.com/
- iOS/Android Getting Started apps, as well as Server side SDKs to generate sessions: https://github.com/opentok
- Firebase: helps you build better mobile apps and grow your business https://firebase.google.com/
- Loopy: make cool visualizations http://ncase.me/loopy/
- Flutter: Build beautiful native apps in record time https://flutter.io/
- Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites https://gohugo.io/
- Splunk Developer Overview - http://dev.splunk.com/ Splunk on GitHub - https://github.com/splunk
- CloudAnt: A highly scalable and performant JSON database service https://cloudant.com/
- Android Developer: Build Your First App https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html