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Accessing A User's Fantasy Football Data via API

Hi, I'm working on a web project where I'd like to allow users to log in on my site using their Yahoo! ID and then be able to display their Yahoo! Fantasy Football team, details about their players, their rank in their league, etc.

I've taken a look at the developer pages on OAUTH and the Yahoo! Updates API but haven't been able to determine if this functionality is supported.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Michael

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  • Have you played with the YQL Console? Because it's great, and shows what and how this information is available. The tables you want all begin with fantasysports. The league ids are a little odd, but are described here. Anyway, spend some time with the console (especially the [desc] option for each table) and it'll start to make more sense.
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  • QUOTE (Michael @ Jun 23 2010, 04:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi, I'm working on a web project where I'd like to allow users to log in on my site using their Yahoo! ID and then be able to display their Yahoo! Fantasy Football team, details about their players, their rank in their league, etc.

    I've taken a look at the developer pages on OAUTH and the Yahoo! Updates API but haven't been able to determine if this functionality is supported.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Michael

    The Yahoo! Fantasy Sports API provides the data you're looking for. A good place to start is the welcome thread for this forum. It's got links to lots of helpful material.


    QUOTE (phil @ Jun 24 2010, 05:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Have you played with the YQL Console? Because it's great, and shows what and how this information is available. The tables you want all begin with fantasysports. The league ids are a little odd, but are described here. Anyway, spend some time with the console (especially the [desc] option for each table) and it'll start to make more sense.

    The YQL Console is great to get an idea of what's available, but there is much more available through the API.
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  • QUOTE (Shane K @ Jun 25 2010, 05:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    The YQL Console is great to get an idea of what's available, but there is much more available through the API.

    I've really only messed with the YQL but now see the true power lives within the REST API. Thanks, this changes things. Luckily most of my past time involved writing the OAuth layer though.... ;)
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