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Get ESPN Women's College Basketball Athletes Index

Get ESPN Women's College Basketball Athletes Index

Usage

espn_wbb_athletes_index(
  season = most_recent_wbb_season(),
  active = TRUE,
  limit = 25000L,
  ...
)

Arguments

season

Season year (numeric, e.g. 2025). Defaults to the most recent WBB season.

active

logical. When TRUE (default) only active athletes are returned. Set to FALSE for the full historical roster.

limit

integer. Maximum number of rows to return. Default 25000. WBB can return 6,000-12,000 athletes per season; increase if needed. Pass a small value (e.g. limit = 50) in tests to keep execution fast.

...

Additional arguments; currently unused but retained for forward compatibility. Proxy configuration should use options(wehoop.proxy = ...) – see ?wehoop for details.

Value

A single wehoop_data tibble with one row per athlete.

col_nametypes
athlete_idcharacter
full_namecharacter
jerseycharacter
positioncharacter
team_idcharacter
headshotcharacter
statuscharacter
linkcharacter

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  espn_wbb_athletes_index(season = 2025, limit = 50)
#> Fetching page 1 of 1 for womens-college-basketball athletes (season=2025)...
#> ── ESPN WOMENS-COLLEGE-BASKETBALL Athletes Index from ESPN.com ─────────────────
#>  Data updated: 2026-05-06 04:51:05 UTC
#> # A tibble: 50 × 9
#>    athlete_id full_name jersey position team_id headshot status link     ref_url
#>    <chr>      <chr>     <chr>  <chr>    <chr>   <chr>    <chr>  <chr>    <chr>  
#>  1 8941       NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  2 19319      NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  3 19747      NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  4 19748      NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  5 19749      NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  6 19750      NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  7 2331675    NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  8 2331676    NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#>  9 2331677    NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#> 10 2331678    NA        NA     NA       NA      NA       NA     http://… http:/…
#> # ℹ 40 more rows
# }