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Consume ESPN Public API for sports data
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Overview

This node interacts with the ESPN public API to fetch sports data specifically for College Football's scoreboard. It allows users to retrieve the scoreboard for a specific date, with options to limit the number of results and filter by additional fields such as week number and groups. This is useful for applications that need up-to-date game scores and related information for college football games on a given day.

Use Case Examples

  1. Retrieve the scoreboard for today's college football games.
  2. Get the scoreboard for college football games on January 15, 2024, limited to 20 results.
  3. Fetch the scoreboard for a specific week in the college football season, filtering by certain groups.

Properties

Name Meaning
Date The date for which to retrieve the scoreboard, in YYYYMMDD format. If left empty, the scoreboard for today is returned.
Limit The maximum number of scoreboard results to return.
Week The week number of the college football season to filter the scoreboard results.
Groups Comma-separated list of groups to filter the scoreboard results.

Output

JSON

  • events - Array of game events including scores and details for the specified date.

Dependencies

  • Requires internet access to call the ESPN public API endpoints.

Troubleshooting

  • Common issues include invalid date format (should be YYYYMMDD) which may result in no data returned or errors from the API.
  • If the limit is set too high, the API might throttle or return partial data.
  • Network connectivity issues can prevent the node from fetching data from ESPN API.
  • Errors from the API are caught and can be returned as error messages if 'Continue On Fail' is enabled.

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