README

Object-oriented PHP package for reading data from the ESPN JSON API.

Installation

Via Composer:

composer require danabrey/espn-college-football-stats

Note: v2.0 removes support for PHP versions below 7.4. If using PHP 7.0-7.3, use the latest version of v1.0 of this package.

Usage

Scrape a player's stats by passing their ESPN player ID (found in the URL e.g. https://www.espn.co.uk/college-football/player/stats/_/id/4241463/jerry-jeudy)

$stats = new DanAbrey\ESPNCollegeFootballStats\ESPNCollegeFootballStats();
$playerStats = $stats->getPlayer(4241463);

The return from getPlayer() will be a Player object, which includes their ID and a seasons property which is an array of PlayerSeason objects, containing the stats for the player that season.

Team Stats

Fetching stats for teams is similar.

The return from getTeam() will be a Team object, which includes their ID and a seasons property which is an array of TeamSeason objects.

$stats = new DanAbrey\ESPNCollegeFootballStats\ESPNCollegeFootballStats();
$teamStats = $stats->getTeam(333);

By default, it will return the last four seasons' worth of data. You can change this by passing an array of seasons to $stats->setSeasons().

$stats = new DanAbrey\ESPNCollegeFootballStats\ESPNCollegeFootballStats();
$stats->setTeamSeasons([2015, 2016]);
$teamStats = $stats->getTeam(333);

Disclaimer

This package is intended as a proof of concept experiment, I highly advise against using the ESPN API (which isn't documented) for anything other than hobby personal use.

Contributing/Contact

Please feel free to raise issues or open pull requests with suggestions on how to improve this project. For any informal questions, find me on Twitter at @danabrey.

License

• MIT license
• Copyright 2019 © Dan Abrey