python error parsing json

Question

I'm trying to parse the information found in this link here: http://stats.nba.com/stats/playergamelog?DateFrom=&DateTo=&LeagueID=00&PlayerID=203518&Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Pre+Season

What I want to pull is the information under rowSet (so 0, 1, 2, etc will be one entry)

Code I'm using:

import requests
urlPlayerLog = "http://stats.nba.com/stats/playergamelog?DateFrom=&DateTo=&LeagueID=00&PlayerID=203518&Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Pre+Season"
responses = requests.get(urlPlayerLog)
dataGameLogs = responses.json()['resultSets'][0]['rowSet']

This was working for me for months and then one day I kept getting the following error:

Which made me think the issue was with dataGameLogs = responses.json()['resultSets'][0]['rowSet'] , but unsure why that is returning an error...

I likely means that the server didn't give you any data. I ran your url several times. The first time I got data, but after that I got nothing. You could peek at responses.text to see if you got anything before proceeding. — tdelaney
– tdelaney, Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 21:08

Ken · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-12 21:50:03Z

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The webpage might be expecting a web browser to request the data from the URL. Try adding a user-agent to your request.

import requests
HEADERS = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0'}
urlPlayerLog = "http://stats.nba.com/stats/playergamelog?DateFrom=&DateTo=&LeagueID=00&PlayerID=203518&Season=2016-17&SeasonType=Pre+Season"
responses = requests.get(urlPlayerLog, headers=HEADERS)
dataGameLogs = responses.json()['resultSets'][0]['rowSet']

answered Oct 12, 2016 at 21:50

Ken

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