Stats endpoint supports startDate and endDate parameters

[vile319]

Hi Todd,
.get does not properly apply startDate and endDate. It only does, for example, https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange

where it should instead be doing:
https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange&startDate=07/03/2024&endDate=07/10/2024

Let me know if you need more clarification.

Thanks!
Vile

[toddrob99]

@vile319 try enabling logging similar to this:

import logging
import statsapi
logger = logging.getLogger('statsapi')
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
rootLogger = logging.getLogger()
rootLogger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s - %(levelname)8s - %(name)s(%(thread)s) - %(message)s")
ch.setFormatter(formatter)
rootLogger.addHandler(ch)

Then try again and see if it logs that it's ignoring those parameters. That's most likely what's happening, because I don't see startDate or endDate in the parameters for the stats endpoint.

If those parameters are valid, I can add them to the endpoint definition. In the meantime, you can use the force parameter to make the get command include the parameters that it thinks are extraneous/unsupported. For example: statsapi.get("stats", {"group": "hitting", "season":2024, "stats":"byDateRange", "startDate":"07/03/2024", "endDate":"07/10/2024"}, force=True).

[vile319]

@toddrob99 Hi Todd,
Thanks for the quick reply.

Without force:

It is indeed ignoring the parameters.

With force:
stats=statsapi.get('stats', {'group':'hitting', 'season':2024, 'stats':'byDateRange', 'startDate':'07/01/2024', 'endDate': '07/05/2024'}, force=True)

2024-10-27 21:01:04,948 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/{ver}/stats
2024-10-27 21:01:04,949 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Found query param: group
2024-10-27 21:01:04,950 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Found query param: season
2024-10-27 21:01:04,951 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Found query param: stats
2024-10-27 21:01:04,951 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Found invalid param, forcing into query parameters per force flag: startDate
2024-10-27 21:01:04,952 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Found invalid param, forcing into query parameters per force flag: endDate
2024-10-27 21:01:04,952 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - path_params: {}
2024-10-27 21:01:04,953 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - query_params: {'group': 'hitting', 'season': '2024', 'stats': 'byDateRange', 'startDate': '07/01/2024', 'endDate': '07/05/2024'}
2024-10-27 21:01:04,954 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Replacing {ver} with default: v1.
2024-10-27 21:01:04,954 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats
2024-10-27 21:01:04,955 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Adding query parameter group=hitting
2024-10-27 21:01:04,955 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting
2024-10-27 21:01:04,956 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Adding query parameter season=2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,957 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,957 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Adding query parameter stats=byDateRange
2024-10-27 21:01:04,958 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange
2024-10-27 21:01:04,959 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Adding query parameter startDate=07/01/2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,959 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange&startDate=07/01/2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,961 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - Adding query parameter endDate=07/05/2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,962 - DEBUG - statsapi(24960) - URL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange&startDate=07/01/2024&endDate=07/05/2024
2024-10-27 21:01:04,963 - DEBUG - urllib3.connectionpool(24960) - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): statsapi.mlb.com:443
2024-10-27 21:01:05,721 - DEBUG - urllib3.connectionpool(24960) - https://statsapi.mlb.com:443 "GET /api/v1/stats?group=hitting&season=2024&stats=byDateRange&startDate=07/01/2024&endDate=07/05/2024 HTTP/1.1" 200 None

It does appear to be a valid parameter. Looks like force clears it up, so no worries there. Thanks Todd!

Thanks again,
Vile

[vile319]

On the topic of the update for the parameters, it does appear to be valid.
For example, using 07/03/2024 to 07/04/2024 as the start date to the end date returns:

And using 07/03/2024 to 07/05/2024 as the start date to the end date returns:

[toddrob99]

Fixing in v1.8.1