Game information of a final game: venue, times, referees, links and the Japanese game report, one row.
Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/play-schedule
Value
A wehoop_data tibble, one row per record; the columns are always these, in this order
(sdv-py wjbl_game_info):
| col_name | type | description |
| play_schedule_id | integer | Game id play_schedule_id (key space: W League games, ONE global sequence across every league_id and season, e.g. 4243 = 2013-14 final, 7987 = 2025-26 final). The play_schedule_id parameter of every game route and of the site's /schedule_result/detail/*?play_schedule_id= pages. |
| league_id | integer | Competition-edition id league_id (key space: W League competitions; sequential, ONE id per season of the league AND per all-star game, cup or camp: 45 = '25-26 W League', 47 = '26-27', 20 = '13-14', 46 = All-Star 2025-26). The league_id parameter of /play-schedules and /play-schedule-months; enumerate with /leagues. The sdv season is the END year of league_title (END = 2000 + the second YY: '25-26' -> 2026, '99-00' -> 2000). |
| league_title | character | Competition-edition title in Japanese: '25-26 W League' = 2025-26 W League (sdv END year 2026; END = 2000 + the second YY: '25-26' -> 2026, '99-00' -> 2000); also All-Star game, Autumn Cup, Summer Camp, 'W League SUPERGAMES'. |
| season | integer | Season END year (2025-26 = 2026, 1999-2000 = 2000) from league_title ('25-26 W League'); null for an all-star game, cup or camp. |
| season_id | integer | Season-phase id season_id (key space: phases WITHIN a league_id, e.g. 169 = 25-26 regular season Premier, 170 = 25-26 regular season Future, 176 = 25-26 playoff final). Not a year: one league_id has several season_ids. The season_ids parameter of /team-standings and /team-ranking and the season_id of /team/roster. |
| season_title | character | Phase title in Japanese: regular season, (Japanese text) / playoff final, playoff semifinal (the separator varies by era). |
| season_full_name | character | league_title + phase (+ division) in Japanese: 2025-26 regular season, Premier division (Future division, from 2024-25). |
| game_date | character | Game date in Japanese, (Japanese text) (Saturday 4 April 2026). |
| game_day | character | Game date as an ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD, Japan time), built from the game year and the game date. |
| game_start_time | character | Scheduled tip-off 'HH:MM', Japan time (JST, UTC+9). |
| started_at | character | Actual tip-off 'HH:MM', JST, as recorded ('15:01'); junk on 2013-14 games ('05:06' for a 19:00 game, and it CHANGES between requests: 05:06 / 05:16 / 05:25 for game 4243), so ignore it there. |
| opening_time | character | Doors-open time 'HH:MM', JST; empty when not published. |
| venue | character | Arena name, Japanese. |
| game_icon | integer | Icon code shown next to the game: 0 = none, 1 = home-game icon (home.svg), 2 = neutral-site icon (neutral.svg). |
| venue_address | character | Arena postal address, Japanese. |
| venue_others | character | Access directions to the arena (nearest station, walking time), Japanese free text. |
| allow_shoes_on | integer | Outdoor shoes allowed in the arena: 1 = not stated, 2 = yes (o), 3 or 4 = no (x). Integer. |
| allow_shoes_on_others | character | Extra note on outdoor shoes; empty string in every sample. |
| ticket_info | character | Ticket information, Japanese free text with CRLF line breaks and HTML links. |
| ticket_url | character | Ticket sale URL; empty string in every sample. |
| event_info | character | Event-day information (gate times, food, shoes, tip-off), Japanese free text with CRLF line breaks. |
| live_link | character | Live-stream URL; empty when none. |
| vod_link | character | Video-on-demand URL (Basketball LIVE / W-TV); empty when none. |
| bs_url | character | Satellite-TV (BS) broadcast URL; empty string in every sample. |
| cs_url | character | Cable/satellite (CS) broadcast URL; empty string in every sample. |
| ground_url | character | Terrestrial-TV broadcast URL; empty string in every sample. |
| other_url | character | Other broadcast URL; empty string in every sample. |
| cancel_flg | integer | Cancelled flag: 1 = cancelled, 0 = not. |
| delay_flg | integer | Postponed flag: 1 = postponed, 0 = not. |
| game_status | character | Game state: 'fixed' = final (confirmed result), 'scheduled' = not played yet (seen on 26-27 games); the site's JS also handles 'live', 'canceled' and 'delayed'. The capture banks only 'fixed' games. |
| box_flg | integer | Box-score flag (integer). 1 on every sampled game, scheduled ones included, so it does NOT prove a box score exists. |
| pbp_flg | integer | Play-by-play flag: 1 = /pbp/* routes have data (2018-19 onward), 0 = not (they answer []). |
| referee_name | character | Crew chief, 'SURNAME GIVEN' in Japanese; empty on 2013-14 (names are in comment); placeholder (Japanese text) (= 'referee 01') on game 5533. |
| sub_referee_name1 | character | First umpire, Japanese name; empty when not recorded. |
| sub_referee_name2 | character | Second umpire, Japanese name; empty when not recorded. |
| comment | character | Officials block, Japanese free text: (Japanese text) crew chief, (Japanese text) first umpire, (Japanese text) second umpire, 2013-14 (Japanese text) referee / (Japanese text) umpires / (Japanese text) commissioner; CRLF or <br> separated. |
| report | character | Game report (quarter-by-quarter narrative) in Japanese HTML; filled on 2013-14, empty on the newer samples. |
| home_team_id | integer | Home team: Franchise id team_id (key space: W League franchises, STABLE across seasons and sponsor renames: 13 = Toyota Antelopes, 12 = Denso Iris, 8 = ENEOS Sunflowers; all-star sides have their own ids, e.g. 591). The team_id of /team/roster and of the site's /team/roster/?team_id=. Not season_team_id. |
| home_season_team_name | character | Home team name: Team name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes). |
| home_season_team_short_name | character | Home team short name: Short team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota). |
| home_team_logo_image | character | Home team logo: Team logo path, relative to https://www.wjbl.org ('/static/images/base_team/...png' or '/assets/img/team/...png'). |
| home_free_text | character | Free-text team label used when the slot has no team (e.g. 'winner of game X'); empty string in every sample. |
| away_team_id | integer | Away team: Franchise id team_id (key space: W League franchises, STABLE across seasons and sponsor renames: 13 = Toyota Antelopes, 12 = Denso Iris, 8 = ENEOS Sunflowers; all-star sides have their own ids, e.g. 591). The team_id of /team/roster and of the site's /team/roster/?team_id=. Not season_team_id. |
| away_season_team_name | character | Away team name: Team name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes). |
| away_season_team_short_name | character | Away team short name: Short team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota). |
| away_team_logo_image | character | Away team logo: Team logo path, relative to https://www.wjbl.org ('/static/images/base_team/...png' or '/assets/img/team/...png'). |
| away_free_text | character | Free-text team label used when the slot has no team (e.g. 'winner of game X'); empty string in every sample. |
Details
Unofficial and unsupported: these wrappers read the JSON backend of www.wjbl.org (api.wjbl.01core.app), keyless, found in the site's own JavaScript. The site's terms of use (www.wjbl.org/kiyaku/) forbid reproducing, republishing or otherwise using site content without permission: a copyright clause, not an anti-scraping one. The wrappers fetch on the user's behalf; a published data release or a hosted mirror needs the owner's decision first. The site has no robots.txt (404, checked 2026-10-12), so no Crawl-delay is published; the runtime waits at least 1 s before every request, retries included. Payloads are not redistributed as release assets.
Women's league: the W League is Japan's top women's basketball league (the SportsDataverse R counterpart is wehoop). All text is Japanese (team names, phases, play-by-play actions); the column descriptions translate the vocabulary.
Seasons are END years (2026 = 2025-26, 2000 = 1999-2000). The API keys a season edition by an opaque league_id (45 = '25-26 W League'; every all-star game, cup and camp has one too) and the wrappers map the END year with the live league list (one extra, cached request; END = 2000 + the second YY of league_title). Phases inside an edition (season_id: 169 = regular season Premier, 170 = Future, 176 = playoff final; two divisions from 2024-25) are native ids, passed as given: wjbl_standing_seasons lists them with their END year.
The schedule is paged by month: wjbl_schedule answers ONE month (game_month, YYYY-MM; omitted = the season's latest month only). List the months with wjbl_game_months and loop. The game routes take only the global play_schedule_id and serve final games only: each makes one extra, cached request (the game header) to prove the game is final and that the answer is the game and the teams asked for.
Errors are HTTP 200: an unknown id answers [] (wehoop_no_data) and a missing or non-numeric parameter answers an error envelope (wehoop_asset_fetch). Coverage: schedules from 1999-2000, box scores from 2013-14, play-by-play and the period stats from 2018-19 (earlier games answer [] on the /pbp routes: wehoop_no_data). No route carries shot coordinates.
Personal data: the organiser's contact details (phones, e-mail) and the player's blood type are never output, and phone numbers and e-mail addresses inside free text are replaced by [redacted-phone] / [redacted-email]. Do not add them back. Player bio fields and referee names are public and stay.
Errors are classed conditions, all inheriting
wehoop_error:wehoop_no_data(HTTP 404 or the API has nothing for the request: an empty list, an id it does not know, a game without play-by-play before 2018-19, a season without months or games),wehoop_bad_request(a season that is not the END year of a W League edition, an id that is not an integer or a game_month that is not YYYY-MM, raised before the request, or the API's HTTP 400 / 422) andwehoop_asset_fetch(any other failure: an error envelope at HTTP 200, any other non-2xx, an empty or non-JSON body, a game that is not final, a truncated play-by-play, or a body for another game, league edition, month, team, season phase or player than the one asked for;transientis TRUE for 408 / 429 / 5xx and transport failures). HTTP 500 is retried. Wrappers raise; they never warn and return an empty frame.
See also
Other WJBL Functions:
wjbl_box_score(),
wjbl_game(),
wjbl_game_months(),
wjbl_head_to_head(),
wjbl_leagues(),
wjbl_pbp(),
wjbl_period_scores(),
wjbl_player(),
wjbl_player_period_leaders(),
wjbl_roster(),
wjbl_schedule(),
wjbl_staff(),
wjbl_standing_seasons(),
wjbl_team_box_score(),
wjbl_team_period_stats(),
wjbl_team_ranking(),
wjbl_team_standings(),
wjbl_teams()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(wjbl_game_info(play_schedule_id = 7987))
#> Error in wjbl_game_info(play_schedule_id = 7987) :
#> api.wjbl.01core.app/api/play-schedule/detail answered HTTP 503:
#> {"message":"Service Unavailable"}
# }