Game Center incomplete 2024-25 and 2025-26

[bwalsh9393-coder]

Not sure why or how this is happening but there were around 50-60 games last season that when I scraped for my standard BoxScore/Play-by-Play and shifts it does not collect some information, the standard json size is around 500-600kb for these game files, and a lot of these are only scraping partials around 180k. Seems like play by play is often missing or truncated but sometimes its boxscore or shifts. all previous season dating back to around 2011-12 work perfect every game. was wondering what the possible cause or solution is because I've had this issue for MANY games this season. Any and all advice is very much appreciated as its got my project at a stand still at this point.

[johnsondillond]

It could be that the recent rate limiting implementation on the API is affecting your project while you're scraping those games. I'm not sure if there's a rate limit on the amount of data requested, but I have seen rate limits for number of requests over a short amount of time with my own projects

[bwalsh9393-coder]

It could be that the recent rate limiting implementation on the API is affecting your project while you're scraping those games. I'm not sure if there's a rate limit on the amount of data requested, but I have seen rate limits for number of requests over a short amount of time with my own projects

Thank you for quick response. I wont dismiss that but seems unlikely since it continues to be the same specific game files that do not pull complete. After further inspection today its actually the Shifts information that seems to be the culprit most often.

[johnsondillond]

It could be that the recent rate limiting implementation on the API is affecting your project while you're scraping those games. I'm not sure if there's a rate limit on the amount of data requested, but I have seen rate limits for number of requests over a short amount of time with my own projects

Thank you for quick response. I wont dismiss that but seems unlikely since it continues to be the same specific game files that do not pull complete. After further inspection today its actually the Shifts information that seems to be the culprit most often.

Do you have some sample game IDs for the shifts reports that are causing issues up to this point? And maybe the endpoint you're calling, so I can try to recreate the same issue?

[bwalsh9393-coder]

thanks for trying to help.... the last Id this happened for was:

"id": 2025020405 (id say this has happened to me for about 100-150 games this season)

the earliest i ever had this issue was late last season for a batch of about 50 games from 2024021235 to 2024021291 and then it finished the last 20 games of the season fine. thought it was a 1 off hiccup. but this season its off and on all over the place for me.

end points im calling:

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/gamecenter/{game_id}/play-by-play
https://api-web.nhle.com/v1/gamecenter/{game_id}/boxscore
https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/shiftcharts?cayenneExp=gameId={game_id}

thanks again for looking into this and trying to help

[johnsondillond]

I wonder if the shift charts are failing more often because they are using the rest api endpoint instead of the api-web.nhle.com endpoints like your boxscore and play-by-play endpoints do. I'll do some digging to see if there's some weird limiting on that specific API and if there's some hidden endpoint to shift charts within api-web.nhle.com since that might help avoid this issue in the future

[johnsondillond]

https://api.nhle.com/stats/rest/en/shiftcharts?cayenneExp=gameId=2025020450 and ((duration != '00:00' and typeCode = 517) or typeCode != 517 )&exclude=detailCode&exclude=duration&exclude=eventDetails&exclude=teamAbbrev&exclude=teamName

I got this URL when observing the network calls of this URL: https://www.nhl.com/stats/shiftcharts?id=2025020450 for your sample endpoint. It might be worthwhile using this directly since this works with the webpage itself. Lmk if that works better or not.