🔒 Data Scraping

[twilit shore]

I am scraping by data for. basketball-reference and after successfully scraping data for 2024 and 2025 season long stats i wanted to get each players game logs scraped. I kept getting a 429 error only for the game logs page, but not the season long stats

[uneven inlet]

@twilit shore

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[glossy yew]

Causes of HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests
You are getting rate limited, try slowing down your requests.

Also I just checked, please don't ask about this here in the future, as scraping is against basketball-reference's Terms of Use

without our express written permission, use any automated means to access or use the Site, including scripts, bots, scrapers, data miners, or similar software, in a manner that adversely impacts site performance or access; or

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[uneven inlet]

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[twilit shore]

okay thank you

[uneven inlet]

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