Not pulling data from prizepicks

[ezequiel-kl]

Hey, your project is wonderful, I was having this error while starting the app:

I went to the API link that you left on the code and proceed to manually copy and paste that info into the pre_formatted_projections.json file and then it successfully started:

Is this expected? I am missing something or the format changed?

Thank you for this development, I was trying to do something similar but this is awesome.

[KevinTrinh1227]

Hello @ezequiel-kl,

Thank you for reaching out! So the way I designed it to work is that it uses a web driver to "hard scrape" the API from Prize Picks.

Yes, that is the expected output to terminal. I have not yet implemented a system to search up players with a full name more than 2 words, or special characters yet. (Working as a revamped version 2 // full stack as of this moment)

But if you're asking if users are supposed to copy and paste the API info, then no. Technically it works, but I have it to where it uses a web driver instead.

Why would I do this rather than just making a normal API request you may ask? Because Prize Picks does not allow public API, nor do I have an Auth key. While you can copy and paste from the link (which was how I used to have it before LOL) It was now the ideal method I wanted so I used a web driver to open a Firefox tab locally on your computer to web scrape all the API data into the JSON file.

So after you start it it should open a FireFox tab assuming you have FireFox and gecko which is installed on your system...

It will scrape all the prize picks data and put it in the JSON (this was for debugging/testing purposes) then it will start searching up players, etc.

And it will display...

[ezequiel-kl]

Thank you for your fast reply!

That is exactly what is trying to do but when it opens the Firefox tab, I see that it shows the data, and after this window:

It immediately closes and throws the error that I showed on my initial post

So I opened the link, created an empty pre_formatted_projections.json and copied the content manually to the file and it worked as you show me on your screenshots.

Tomorrow with the new predictions I will now if I "accidentally" fixed the issue.

Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it.

[KevinTrinh1227]

Hmm im not sure why it's doing that.

Try adding this line of code in the for loop:

print(type(item)) 

Inside the ./utils/json_parser.py...

It should be a bunch of dictionaries. And it should print a bunch of <class 'dict'>s

[ezequiel-kl]

Hey man that worked!

Thank you a lot!