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MFL: Get Endpoint

Tan Ho

2022-06-22

Source: vignettes/mfl_getendpoint.Rmd
mfl_getendpoint.Rmd

Creating custom MFL API calls

The MFL API is extensive. If there is something you’d like to access beyond the current scope of ffscrapr, you can use the lower-level “mfl_getendpoint” function to create a GET request and access the data, while still using the authentication and rate-limiting features I’ve already created.

Here is an example of how you can call one of the endpoints - in this case, let’s try searching for SFBX leagues through the leagueSearch endpoint.

We’ll start by opening up this page, https://api.myfantasyleague.com/2020/api_info?STATE=test&CCAT=export&TYPE=leagueSearch, which is the “test” page for this particular endpoint. From here, we can see that the only parameter required is “SEARCH”.

We need a connection object to pass into the mfl_getendpoint function, although in this example we don’t need to give it much since the endpoint doesn’t need a leagueID or username/password or APIKEY.

conn <- mfl_connect(season = 2020)

conn
#> <MFL connection 2020_>
#> List of 5
#>  $ platform   : chr "MFL"
#>  $ season     : num 2020
#>  $ league_id  : chr(0) 
#>  $ APIKEY     : NULL
#>  $ auth_cookie: NULL
#>  - attr(*, "class")= chr "mfl_conn"

The parameters of the mfl_getendpoint function are conn, endpoint, and any other optional parameters required by the API.

The function will automatically insert the league_id, API key, and/or authentication cookies from the connection object, and will request JSON for you - so you do not need to add any of these parameters.

It is safest to assume that everything is case-sensitive: the endpoint must match the case displayed by MFL (“leagueSearch”) and the SEARCH argument name must be provided in upper-case.

sfb_search <- mfl_getendpoint(conn,endpoint = "leagueSearch", SEARCH = "sfbx conference")
#> Using request.R from "ffscrapr"

str(sfb_search, max.level = 1)
#> List of 3
#>  $ content :List of 3
#>  $ query   : chr "https://api.myfantasyleague.com/2020/export?TYPE=leagueSearch&SEARCH=sfbx%20conference&JSON=1"
#>  $ response:List of 9
#>   ..- attr(*, "class")= chr "response"
#>  - attr(*, "class")= chr "mfl_api"

The function returns a list with the query that was sent, the response that was received, and the content that was parsed - this helps you debug the result of the function later, by inspecting the query that was sent and the response that was received.

I like to extract the content with purrr::pluck and then convert it into a tibble and unnest the content from there, but you can use base R subsetting or magrittr::extract2 for the same purpose.

search_results <- sfb_search %>% 
  purrr::pluck("content","leagues","league") %>% 
  tibble::tibble() %>% 
  tidyr::unnest_wider(1)

head(search_results)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 3
#>   homeURL                                          name                id   
#>   <chr>                                            <chr>               <chr>
#> 1 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/13411 #SFBX Conference 12 13411
#> 2 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/16428 #SFBX Conference 6  16428
#> 3 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/17910 #SFBX Conference 11 17910
#> 4 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/26453 #SFBX Conference 8  26453
#> 5 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/27495 #SFBX Conference 2  27495
#> 6 http://www73.myfantasyleague.com/2020/home/31492 #SFBX Conference 14 31492

Another Example: Trade Bait

Here’s another example, this time with the trade bait endpoint: https://api.myfantasyleague.com/2020/api_info?STATE=test&CCAT=export&TYPE=tradeBait

fog <- mfl_connect(season = 2019, league_id = 12608)

fog_tradebait <- mfl_getendpoint(fog, "tradeBait", INCLUDE_DRAFT_PICKS = 1) %>% 
  purrr::pluck("content","tradeBaits","tradeBait") %>% 
  tibble::tibble() %>% 
  tidyr::unnest_wider(1) %>% 
  tidyr::separate_rows("willGiveUp",sep = ",") %>% 
  dplyr::left_join(
    ff_franchises(fog) %>% dplyr::select("franchise_id","franchise_name"),
    by = c("franchise_id")
  ) %>% 
  dplyr::left_join(
    mfl_players(fog) %>% dplyr::select("player_id","player_name","pos","age","team"),
    by = c("willGiveUp" = "player_id")
  )

head(fog_tradebait)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 9
#>   timestamp  franchise_id willGiveUp inExchangeFor    franchise_name player_name
#>   <chr>      <chr>        <chr>      <chr>            <chr>          <chr>      
#> 1 1574520555 0001         7394       "anyone need a … @JohnBoschFF   Rivers, Ph…
#> 2 1574520555 0001         13128      "anyone need a … @JohnBoschFF   Cook, Dalv…
#> 3 1580535809 0003         13319      ""               The Accountant Jones, Aar…
#> 4 1580535809 0003         13139      ""               The Accountant Williams, …
#> 5 1580535809 0003         11675      ""               The Accountant Adams, Dav…
#> 6 1580572165 0004         12171      ""               Kevin Cutillo  Johnson, D…
#> # … with 3 more variables: pos <chr>, age <dbl>, team <chr>