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Georgeandpfunk
4 years ago
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EASHL API Disabled?

Is the EASHL API disabled temporarily or permanently? I am receiving an "Acess Denied" error when attempting to run the following command (which has been working for the past two years): curl --refe...
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    PlayoffError
    4 years ago

    Seems like the curl command needs a few non-default header values since the change.

    I'm having success adding the following values:

    Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5

    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

    Connection: keep-alive

    Example using OPs example as a building block:

    curl --referer www.ea.com "https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/members/stats?clubId=76815&platform=ps4" -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5" -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0" -H "Connection: keep-alive"

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jaarons
4 years ago

It looks like Akamai (EA's CDN provider) is blocking a ton of IPs from data centers likely in a way to cut down on aggressive/malicious bot behavior. Unfortunately it's a widespread block so clean or unused IPs get picked up in that net.

I have access to servers in multiple locations (Montreal, Dallas, Tampa, Utah, and Virginia). I used a few servers in each to test API calls - including from IPs that have not been used for outbound network in years - and they were all effectively blocked. I ended up tunneling my requests through a paid VPN service and it works great.

Can't thank you @PlayoffError  and @Georgeandpfunk enough for your work you guys have done.

As an aside, any chance either of you have figured out a workaround for fights being double-counted in skpims? I've only been tracking club & skater stats for about a week now but any fighting majors show as 10 minutes and not 5 in the skpims field. I am not sure if other majors are counted correctly.

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Georgeandpfunk
4 years ago

Hey, thanks for the kudos.

I've never noticed the issue with fighting PIMs being double counted. If it were me, I'd just do some cleanup after receiving the data like:

PIM = PIM - (#Fights * 5)

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