Timeouts

[bialesdaniel]

I am getting a lot of timeouts

message: 'request to https://stats.nba.com/stats/leaguedashplayerstats?College=&Conference=&Country=&DateFrom=&DateTo=&Division=&DraftPick=&DraftYear=&GameScope
=&GameSegment=&Height=&LastNGames=0&LeagueID=00&Location=&MeasureType=Base&Month=0&OpponentTeamID=0&Outcome=&PORound=0&PaceAdjust=N&PerMode=PerGame&Period=0&Playe
rExperience=&PlayerPosition=&PlusMinus=N&Rank=N&Season=&SeasonSegment=&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&ShotClockRange=&StarterBench=&TeamID=0&VsConference=&VsDivision
=&Weight= failed, reason: read ETIMEDOUT',

Is there some throttling or quotas on the nba endpoints? or is there some way to get around this?

[Nick Bottomley]

are you making requests from your local machine or from a cloud instance? nba.com blocks ip addresses of known cloud providers by letting requests hang and time out.

they also do rate limiting.

[bialesdaniel]

I'm running it locally. I'm probably hitting the rate limit. Any chance you know what that is?

[Nick Bottomley]

No, I think it varies by endpoint. But if I need to run a lot of requests I just try to do 1 per second then walk away and wait for it to finish. something more or less like this

const delay = ms => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms));

const playerInfo = [];
for (const player of players) {
  playerInfo.push(await nba.playerInfo({ PlayerID: player.PlayerID });
  await delay(1000);
}