Do you pay yahoo for access to their Fantasy/Sports API?

xpose2000 · on Sept 23, 2011

Yahoo Sports has a free API. They currently do not have a commercial license option. I use it myself and I hope other fantasy sites follow their lead.

Learn more here: http://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/

euroclydon · on Sept 23, 2011

The API seems geared toward getting data for an existing Yahoo fantasy league/team/players, but can you get arbitrary sports game stats and player statuses out of it, or is it only useful if your application's users are Yahoo Fantasy Sports users?

xpose2000 · on Sept 23, 2011

It's only for Yahoo Fantasy Sports users. It does not have sports data in general. You'd have to find another stat provider like STATS Inc for something like that.

xpose2000 · on Sept 23, 2011

I'm not sure there is a way around it. You can try asking in their forums, Sean is the go-to guy behind the API and is very helpful.

ashbrahma · on Sept 23, 2011

Thanks. I think they have some rate limits in place. How do you get around it if you have a lot of users?