I'm helping to create an online league for nhl 21, and i have a few questions...first, as the title of the post is asking, is there an api available to keep track of the teams and players stats for our created league that can quickly import into spreadsheets for our league website? I have heard of other leagues that have some help from ea directly about this.second, is there someone at ea that can help us get the team uniforms and logos without having to try the luck of the draw of unlocking what we need? this is something else that i have heard of help from ea directly on.I'm sure ea is interested in fostering a good relationship with these leagues, as they keep interest high in the competitive angle of the title. I'm just not sure how to get into contact with someone there.any help would be appreciated, whether it be from ea, or other experienced online league repsThank You

Hi here, @The_REAL_RMC. We don't have official details on how to do this, but other leagues have been able to generate reports on matches. LG in particular does this so you could try reaching out to them to see if they can help.

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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hi here, @The_REAL_RMC.

We don't have official details on how to do this, but other leagues have been able to generate reports on matches. LG in particular does this so you could try reaching out to them to see if they can help.
Viktors89
5 years ago
@The_REAL_RMC
Please share the details to get access to the API, I'm also interested in getting more data from our team without having to scroll through all the stuff manually from the game.
Thanks
Georgeandpfunk
5 years ago
I have done this successfully using the NHL 20 API, but plugging in our team ID from the EA Pro Clubs '21. Steps:
⚽ Access your pro club by searching your team name here https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-21/pro-clubs/rankings
🏈 In the address bar, take note of the club id number and platform: clubId=#####&platform=ps4
🏀 I use a cURL command in Ubuntu terminal to access the API: curl --referer www.ea.com "https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/members/stats?clubId=#####&platform=ps4"
(4) The results come back in JSON format, which I store online at "jsonbin.io"
(5) I display the results using a javascript app which I'm happy to show you if you PM me
awardpool
5 years ago
Hi, thanks for posting. How are you handling the auth? I'm getting an access denied error.
Georgeandpfunk
5 years ago
You should be using the entire command I posted (starting with "curl" and ending with the URL) in your terminal. I've confirmed it works for Mac, Linux, and Windows command line. In any case, the "referer" portion is what handles authentication I believe. Let me know if that helps.
For clarity this is the command (substitute your club Id for "#####"):
curl --referer www.ea.com "https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/members/stats?clubId=#####&platform=ps4"
lounatic99
5 years ago
Thanks for the tip! This works great on getting the club data. I was wondering... Do you know what the URL is to get data from Private Match history? https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-21/pro-clubs/match-history?clubId=39855&platform=ps4
For our WoCHL league it would be great if I could import all of the games with date/timestamp and select the game that was the scheduled season game - and then import that data only.
Any ideas would be VERY helpful!
lounatic99
5 years ago
@Georgeandpfunk These are the 3 urls I found in the source of the page:
"seasonRank":"https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/clubs/seasonalStats",
"clubInfo":"https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/clubs/info",
"matchHistory":"https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/clubs/matches"
Georgeandpfunk
5 years ago
@lounatic99 Glad I could help!
I haven't tried to do anything besides individual stats - your post is the first I'm hearing of the possibility for match history. Did some playing and digging and was able to get the matchHistory call to work. I haven't looked at the data beyond a quick scroll through it:
curl --referer www.ea.com "https://proclubs.ea.com/api/nhl/clubs/matches?clubIds=39855&platform=ps4&matchType=gameType10"
I found on Reddit that gameType10 is playoffs and gameType5 is regular season. Hopefully that helps you. Let me know if you come up with anything else.
lounatic99
5 years ago
@Georgeandpfunk thank you so much! This is great. It solves for the Regular and Playoff matches - but any idea how to get the Private match data? See attached. Again, thank you so much!
Georgeandpfunk
5 years ago
@lounatic99 I'm sorry, I haven't solved for that. Have you looked into the data from matchType5 and matchType10 to confirm that the private matches you've played don't show up there? It looks like these only return the last five games played in each category. I tried plugging in "matchType0" through "matchType20" and 5 & 10 are the only two that have worked. Maybe a dumb question but can you view your private match history in the NHL 21 app? I'm curious whether EA even record that data on their servers.
I found a project on github from 2016 that seems to imply you can specify the number of matches to return in your results, but haven't gotten that to work yet either.