This documentation provides the necessary information to use the NBA Stats API. These APIs provide access to NBA season and playoff totals, advanced statistics, shot chart data, and more. Stats are cross-referenced with basketball-reference.com and NBA.com.

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NBA Player Data API

This API provides endpoints to query NBA player statistics, including both "Totals" data and "Advanced" statistical data. Each endpoint supports filtering, sorting, and pagination options to help you retrieve the data you need.

Base URL

All endpoints are served from the base URL:

http://rest.nbaapi.com

Authentication

No authentication is currently required for these endpoints.

Endpoints Overview

Player Data Totals (/playerdatatotals)

Provides season-based totals such as points, assists, games played, and more.
Player Data Advanced (/playerdataadvanced)

Provides advanced player metrics such as Player Efficiency Rating (PER), True Shooting Percentage (TS%), Usage Percentage, Win Shares, and other advanced stats.

Both endpoints offer similar querying patterns and filtering options.

Common Query Parameters

For both Totals and Advanced endpoints, the following query parameters are available for the /query routes:

playerName (string, optional): Filter results to players whose name matches or partially matches the provided string.
season (int, optional): Filter by a specific season (e.g., 2025).
team (string, optional): Filter by a team abbreviation (partial matches allowed).
playerId (string, optional): Filter by a player's unique ID (partial matches allowed).

Sorting Options:

sortBy (string, optional): Field name to sort results by. Varies by endpoint.
ascending (bool, optional): Set to true (default) for ascending order or false for descending order.

Pagination:

pageNumber (int, optional): Page number to retrieve (default is 1).
pageSize (int, optional): Number of records per page (default is 10).

If no data matches your query, the response will be 404 Not Found.

Player Data Totals Endpoints

Base Route: /playerdatatotals

1. Query Player Totals

GET /playerdatatotals/query

Description:
Retrieves a filtered and/or sorted list of player totals data.

Query Parameters:

playerName (string)
season (int)
team (string)
playerId (string)
sortBy (string): Can be PlayerName, Season, Team, Points, Assists, Games, TotalRb, Blocks, Steals.
ascending (bool): Default true.
pageNumber (int): Default 1.
pageSize (int): Default 10.

Response:
200 OK with a JSON array of PlayerDataTotals objects, or 404 Not Found if no records match.

Example Request:

curl -X GET \
  'http://rest.nbaapi.com/api/PlayerDataTotals/query?season=2025&team=BOS&sortBy=PlayerName&ascending=true&pageNumber=1&pageSize=10' \
  -H 'accept: text/plain'

Example Response:

[
  {
    "id": 18905,
    "playerName": "Al Horford",
    "position": "C",
    "age": 38,
    "games": 19,
    "gamesStarted": 18,
    "minutesPg": 532,
    "fieldGoals": 64,
    "fieldAttempts": 137,
    "fieldPercent": 0.467,
    "threeFg": 41,
    "threeAttempts": 101,
    "threePercent": 0.406,
    "twoFg": 23,
    "twoAttempts": 36,
    "twoPercent": 0.639,
    "effectFgPercent": 0.617,
    "ft": 6,
    "ftAttempts": 6,
    "ftPercent": 1,
    "offensiveRb": 16,
    "defensiveRb": 85,
    "totalRb": 101,
    "assists": 44,
    "steals": 14,
    "blocks": 17,
    "turnovers": 19,
    "personalFouls": 31,
    "points": 175,
    "team": "BOS",
    "season": 2025,
    "playerId": "horfoal01"
  },
  ...
]

(Response truncated for brevity.)

2. Get Player Totals by Name

GET /playerdatatotals/name/{playerName}

Description:
Retrieve all totals data for players whose names match or partially match the given playerName.

Response:
200 OK with a JSON array of PlayerDataTotals objects or 404 Not Found.

3. Get Player Totals by Season

GET /playerdatatotals/season/{season}

Description:
Retrieve all player totals for a given season.

4. Get Player Totals by Player ID

GET /playerdatatotals/playerid/{playerId}

Description:
Retrieve all totals data for a player by their unique or partial playerId.

5. Get Player Totals by Team

GET /playerdatatotals/team/{team}

Description:
Retrieve totals for all players who played on a given team.

6. Count of All Player Totals Records

GET /playerdatatotals/count

Description:
Retrieve an integer count of all available player totals records.

Player Data Advanced Endpoints

Base Route: /playerdataadvanced

1. Query Player Advanced Data

GET /playerdataadvanced/query

Description:
Retrieve a filtered and/or sorted list of advanced player stats.

Query Parameters:

playerName (string)
season (int)
team (string)
playerId (string)
sortBy (string): Possible fields include PlayerName, Season, Team, Games, PER, TSPercent, TotalRBPercent, AssistPercent, StealPercent, BlockPercent, TurnoverPercent, UsagePercent, WinShares, Box, VORP.
ascending (bool): Default true.
pageNumber (int): Default 1.
pageSize (int): Default 10.

Response:
200 OK with a JSON array of PlayerDataAdvanced objects, or 404 Not Found if no records match.

Example Request:

curl -X GET \
  'http://rest.nbaapi.com/api/PlayerDataAdvanced/query?playerName=James%20Harden&team=HOU&sortBy=WinShares&ascending=false&pageNumber=1&pageSize=10' \
  -H 'accept: text/plain'

Example Response:

[
  {
    "id": 5645,
    "playerName": "James Harden",
    "position": "SG",
    "age": 25,
    "games": 81,
    "minutesPlayed": 2981,
    "per": 26.7,
    "tsPercent": 0.605,
    "threePAR": 0.378,
    "ftr": 0.561,
    "offensiveRBPercent": 2.8,
    "defensiveRBPercent": 14.2,
    "totalRBPercent": 8.5,
    "assistPercent": 34.6,
    "stealPercent": 2.6,
    "blockPercent": 1.6,
    "turnoverPercent": 14.9,
    "usagePercent": 31.3,
    "offensiveWS": 12.2,
    "defensiveWS": 4.2,
    "winShares": 16.4,
    "winSharesPer": 0.265,
    "offensiveBox": 7,
    "defensiveBox": 1.8,
    "box": 8.8,
    "vorp": 8.1,
    "team": "HOU",
    "season": 2015,
    "playerId": "hardeja01"
  },
  ...
]

(Response truncated for brevity.)

2. Get Advanced Data by Player Name

GET /playerdataadvanced/name/{playerName}

Description:
Retrieve all advanced data for players whose names match or partially match playerName.

3. Get Advanced Data by Season

GET /playerdataadvanced/season/{season}

Description:
Retrieve all advanced data for players in a given season.

4. Get Advanced Data by Player ID

GET /playerdataadvanced/playerid/{playerId}

Description:
Retrieve advanced data by a player's unique or partial playerId.

5. Get Advanced Data by Team

GET /playerdataadvanced/team/{team}

Description:
Retrieve advanced data for all players on a given team.

6. Count of All Advanced Player Records

GET /playerdataadvanced/count

Description:
Retrieve the total count of all available advanced player records.

Responses

200 OK: Request successful; returns requested data.
404 Not Found: No matching records found.
500 Internal Server Error: Server encountered an error.

Example Requests

Query Player Totals (Season 2025, Team BOS):

curl -X GET \
  'http://rest.nbaapi.com/api/PlayerDataTotals/query?season=2025&team=BOS&sortBy=PlayerName&ascending=true&pageNumber=1&pageSize=10' \
  -H 'accept: text/plain'

Query Player Advanced (James Harden, Team HOU, Sorted by WinShares Desc):

curl -X GET \
  'http://rest.nbaapi.com/api/PlayerDataAdvanced/query?playerName=James%20Harden&team=HOU&sortBy=WinShares&ascending=false&pageNumber=1&pageSize=10' \
  -H 'accept: text/plain'

Contact & Support

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You can view the full API documentation at http://rest.nbaapi.com/index.html