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nba_api

Open-source Python client for NBA.com stats and live data endpoints

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About nba_api

nba_api is an MIT-licensed Python package that wraps NBA.com's stats endpoints for player, team, game and league data, plus its live feeds such as scoreboards and box scores. It is community-maintained on GitHub, where it has about 3.8k stars. The latest PyPI release is 1.11.4 (February 2026), and the repository was still getting commits in August 2026.

Features

  • NBA.com stats endpoints wrapper
  • Live scoreboard and box score data
  • Player career and game logs
  • Static player and team lookups
  • pip install from PyPI

Sports and sites covered

Sports

Works with

Not tied to a specific DFS site.

Pricing

Free

Open source (MIT)

Prices as listed on github.com when we checked. Confirm current pricing on their site.

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Last checked Oct 3, 2026. We build every listing from the sources below and recheck them regularly. If something about nba_api has changed, let us know.