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Re: NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays

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Post by Matetricks »

eaganr wrote: post #9
rlau26 wrote: post #4

Where is all the footage from? Is this allowed by the NBA? The quality of the footage is quite good. This seems to be just searching the clip title. For example, if you search 'curry 3' ('curry three' returns nothing), it'll return things like "Curry 2' Finger Roll Layup (6 PTS) (Iguodala 3 AST)" or "Curry REBOUND (Off:0 Def:3)". If it could match the search query with play-by-play data, now THAT'd be cool.

My site ( http://eaganr.com/nba/ ) used to do this. But they changed up their video URLs, wondering how Matetricks gets the new URLs.

I didn't build this, it's a site that's been trending on my news feed. Two people in my network built it over a weekend.

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Post by shaunpud »

derimagia wrote: post #6

For all the people asking where it's from, quick google brought up http://www.nba.com/sitemap_videos_0001.xml and changing it to 0002 seemed to work. It's just an index of something from nba.com and nothing is hosted on the site.

You can get all the sitemaps here; http://www.nba.com/video_sitemap_index.xml

Re: NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays

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Post by shigawire »

lintroller wrote: post #2

This is a fascinating tool but I can't imagine this will exist much longer after the NBA's lawyers find it.

The NBA is usually pretty good about letting fan videos of their content exist.. compared to the NFL at least.

Also videos of every play are available as clips on the NBA site, this just seems like a more searchable version.

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Post by slyfocks »

nodesocket wrote: post #3

I'm a big basketball fan (mostly college). Where are you sourcing the videos? Also, are you manually tagging each video with player names, teams, and keywords or is there some magic happening on the backend?

Just from a cursory glance at the results, it seems like they're simply providing a naive search on the play-by-play descriptions that the NBA provides (e.g. http://data.nba.net/data/10s/prod/v1/20161212/0021600366_pbp...). No computer vision behind-the-scenes magic, unfortunately.

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Post by microtherion »

rfrank wrote: post #8

I like the idea, but I'm having some trouble with it. Search results are only from this season, right? A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me. More slang oriented searches like "dunked on" or "dunks on" don't really work either. Dunk/Dunks shows up in results, but nothing beyond that. Was looking for one of my all time favorite highlights, Baron Davis dunking on Kirilenko [1]. Fo…

> A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me

Presumably because Nash is on the warriors coaching staff.

Re: NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays

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Post by rfrank »

microtherion wrote: post #16
rfrank wrote: post #8

I like the idea, but I'm having some trouble with it. Search results are only from this season, right? A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me. More slang oriented searches like "dunked on" or "dunks on" don't really work either. Dunk/Dunks shows up in results, but nothing beyond that. Was looking for one of my all time favorite highlights, Baron Davis dunking on Kirilenko [1]. Fo…

> A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me Presumably because Nash is on the warriors coaching staff.

I can't find any retired players, maybe you can. Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, etc. Pretty sure it's just this year for results.

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Post by nlin5 »

shaunpud wrote: post #13
derimagia wrote: post #6

For all the people asking where it's from, quick google brought up http://www.nba.com/sitemap_videos_0001.xml and changing it to 0002 seemed to work. It's just an index of something from nba.com and nothing is hosted on the site.

You can get all the sitemaps here; http://www.nba.com/video_sitemap_index.xml

How were you able to find that sitemap? Is there one for stats.nba.com?
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