Issue with the overview endpoint

[nat5142]

Getting an error with responses from the overview function:

from mlbgame import games, box_score, overview

this = games(2019, 5, 1, home='Phillies')
game_id = this[0][0].game_id

ovr = overview(game_id)

produces:

    raw_box_score_root = etree.parse(raw_box_score).getroot()
  File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3435, in lxml.etree.parse
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1861, in lxml.etree._parseDocument
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1881, in lxml.etree._parseFilelikeDocument
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1776, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFilelike
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1187, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFilelike
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 601, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 711, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
  File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 640, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
  File "http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2019/month_05/day_01/gid_2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1/rawboxscore.xml", line 1
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Space required after the Public Identifier, line 1, column 55

I dug around a bit and imported mlbgame.data.get_overview to see what was up:

from mlbgame.data import get_overview
import lxml.etree as etree

ovr = get_overview(game_id)

print(ovr.url)
print(ovr.read())

Which produces this output:

http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2019/month_05/day_01/gid_2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1/linescore.xml

b'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<!--NOTICE: This file is no longer actively supported. Please use the MLB Stats API (http://statsapi.mlb.com/docs/) as an alternative.  Copyright 2019 MLB Advanced Media, L.P.  Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt-->\n<game ampm="PM" aw_lg_ampm="PM" away_ampm="PM" away_code="det" away_division="C" away_file_code="det" away_league_id="103" away_loss="15" away_name_abbrev="DET" away_preview_link="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=preview&amp;c_id=mlb" away_recap_link="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=recap&amp;c_id=mlb" away_sport_code="mlb" away_team_city="Detroit" away_team_errors="0" away_team_hits="12" away_team_id="116" away_team_link="/clubs/index.jsp?cid=t116" away_team_name="Tigers" away_team_runs="3" away_time="7:05" away_time_zone="ET" away_win="13" balls="1" day="WED" description="" double_header_sw="N" first_pitch_et="" game_data_directory="/components/game/mlb/year_2019/month_05/day_01/gid_2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1" game_nbr="1" game_pk="567076" game_type="R" gameday_link="2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1" gameday_sw="P" highlights_available="Y" hm_lg_ampm="PM" home_ampm="PM" home_code="phi" home_division="E" home_file_code="phi" home_league_id="104" home_loss="13" home_name_abbrev="PHI" home_preview_link="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=preview&amp;c_id=mlb" home_recap_link="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=recap&amp;c_id=mlb" home_sport_code="mlb" home_team_city="Philadelphia" home_team_errors="0" home_team_hits="15" home_team_id="143" home_team_link="/clubs/index.jsp?cid=t143" home_team_name="Phillies" home_team_runs="7" home_time="7:05" home_time_zone="ET" home_win="17" id="2019/05/01/detmlb-phimlb-1" ind="F" inning="9" inning_break_length="" inning_state="Top" is_no_hitter="N" is_perfect_game="N" league="AN" location="Philadelphia, PA" note="" original_date="2019/05/01" outs="3" pbp_last="Ronny Rodriguez strikes out swinging." preview="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=preview&amp;c_id=mlb" reason="" runner_on_base_status="0" scheduled_innings="9" status="Final" strikes="3" tbd_flag="N" tiebreaker_sw="N" time="7:05" time_aw_lg="7:05" time_date="2019/05/01 7:05" time_date_aw_lg="2019/05/01 7:05" time_date_hm_lg="2019/05/01 7:05" time_hm_lg="7:05" time_zone="ET" time_zone_aw_lg="-4" time_zone_hm_lg="-4" top_inning="Y" tz_aw_lg_gen="ET" tz_hm_lg_gen="ET" venue="Citizens Bank Park" venue_id="2681" venue_w_chan_loc="USPA1276" wrapup_link="/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2019_05_01_detmlb_phimlb_1&amp;mode=wrap&amp;c_id=mlb" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="0" inning="1"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="1" inning="2"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="0" inning="3"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="0" inning="4"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="0" inning="5"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="1" home_inning_runs="0" inning="6"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="1" home_inning_runs="4" inning="7"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="1" home_inning_runs="2" inning="8"/>\n  <linescore away_inning_runs="0" home_inning_runs="" inning="9"/>\n  <home_runs>\n    <player first="Rhys" hr="1" id="656555" inning="8" last="Hoskins" name_display_roster="Hoskins" number="17" runners="0" std_hr="9" team_code="phi"/>\n    <player first="Jordy" hr="1" id="474568" inning="8" last="Mercer" name_display_roster="Mercer" number="7" runners="0" std_hr="1" team_code="det"/>\n  </home_runs>\n  <winning_pitcher era="5.11" first="Seranthony" first_name="Seranthony" id="622554" last="Dominguez" last_name="Dominguez" losses="0" name_display_roster="Dominguez" s_era="" s_losses="" s_wins="" wins="2"/>\n  <losing_pitcher era="3.97" first="Buck" first_name="Buck" id="571656" last="Farmer" last_name="Farmer" losses="2" name_display_roster="Farmer" s_era="" s_losses="" s_wins="" wins="1"/>\n  <save_pitcher era="" first="" first_name="" id="" last="" last_name="" losses="" name_display_roster="" s_era="" s_losses="" s_wins="" saves="" wins=""/>\n  <game_media>\n    <media calendar_event_id="14-567076-2019-05-01" enhanced="N" free="NO" has_milbtv="false" has_mlbtv="true" media_state="media_dead" start="2019-05-01T23:05:00Z" thumbnail="http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/preview/detphi_567076_th_7_preview.jpg" title="DET @ PHI" type="game"/>\n  </game_media>\n</game>\n'

Thought the notice at the beginning should be brought to your attention

[panzarino]

I think the library has been having a lot of issues recently because of the new Stats API. Since the new API is JSON, it is a lot easier to work with in python than XML (the reason I created this library), and I would suggest using that directly.

[jso8910]

How do I use the new API? It requires an account and I don't know how to get said account