Play-by-play of a final game (2018-19 on): one row per play, Japanese action vocabulary, no shot x/y.
Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/pbp/play-by-play
Value
A wehoop_data tibble, one row per record; the columns are always these, in this order
(sdv-py wjbl_pbp):
| 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. |
| no | integer | Play sequence number, ascending, 1 = first; numbers can skip (deleted plays: 443 numbers for 439 rows on 7987). |
| period | integer | Period: 1-4 = quarters, 5-14 = overtime 1-10 (the site's tab map). Integer. |
| rest_time | character | Game clock REMAINING in the period, 'm:ss' without a leading zero ('9:38'; '10:00' at the start, 5:00 in overtime). |
| seconds_remaining | integer | Seconds remaining in the period, from the 'm:ss' clock string rest_time. |
| team_id | integer | Acting team: franchise id team_id; null on period and game-end lines. |
| team_name | character | Acting team name, Japanese (may contain a full-width space and differ from the box score's spelling); empty on period/game-end lines. |
| team_side | character | Side of the acting team, home or away (from home_away: 1 home, 2 away); null on period and game-end lines. |
| player_number1 | character | Shirt number of the first actor (the player going OUT on a substitution), a string; ” on team and period lines. |
| player_number2 | character | Shirt number of the second actor (the player coming IN on a substitution), a string; ” otherwise. |
| player_name1 | character | Name of the first actor, Japanese; ” on team and period lines. |
| player_name2 | character | Name of the second actor (substitution in), Japanese; ” otherwise. |
| player_id1 | integer | First actor (the player going OUT on a substitution): Player id (key space: W League persons, STABLE across seasons and teams). Joins /boxscore home/away.players[].player_id and the player_id of /player (the pi= of the site's /player/detail?pi=). Null on team and period lines. |
| player_id2 | integer | Second actor, filled on substitutions only (the player coming IN; verified 89/89 on game 7987): Player id (key space: W League persons, STABLE across seasons and teams). Joins /boxscore home/away.players[].player_id and the player_id of /player (the pi= of the site's /player/detail?pi=). Null otherwise. |
| play_text | character | Display text in Japanese: (Japanese text). Bracketed running counts: shots the player's points so far, assists/steals/blocks/turnovers count so far, rebounds '(o-d-t)' = the player's offensive-defensive-total so far, fouls '(a-b:c)' = a the player's personal fouls, b the team's fouls in the period, c free throws awarded (verified on 7987), substitution A out, B in. Empty on period and game-end lines. |
| score | character | Score 'HOME-AWAY' after the play ('4-3'); filled on scoring plays and period/game-end lines, ” otherwise. |
| home_score | integer | Home points after the play, parsed from score ('HOME-AWAY'); null on plays that carry no score. |
| away_score | integer | Away points after the play, parsed from score ('HOME-AWAY'); null on plays that carry no score. |
| end_period_flg | integer | End-of-period flag (integer); 0 on every observed row, the period end is the (Japanese text) action instead. |
| end_game_flg | integer | End-of-game flag: 1 on the final (Japanese text) line only (the site skips that row), else 0. |
| action1 | character | Action in Japanese (vocabulary of 8 full games, 2018-19 to 2025-26): player in (the starting five at the start of the game), substitution (player_id1 OUT, player_id2 IN), (Japanese text) / 'x' = two-point shot outside the paint made / missed ((Japanese text) inside-the-paint is not in the sample games), (Japanese text) / 'x' = three-point shot made / missed, (Japanese text) / 'x' = free throw made / missed, assist, offensive rebound, defensive rebound, (Japanese text) / team offensive / defensive rebound, steal, blocked shot, turnover, team turnover, personal foul, offensive foul, unsportsmanlike foul, timeout, end of period (quarter or overtime), end of game. o = made, x = missed. |
| action2 | character | Sub-action in Japanese: jump shot (on field-goal attempts), free throws awarded on this foul, N = 0-3; ” otherwise. |
| action3 | character | Second qualifier in Japanese: shooting foul; ” otherwise. |
| home_away | integer | Side of the acting team: 1 = home, 2 = away; null on period/game-end lines. |
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_info(),
wjbl_game_months(),
wjbl_head_to_head(),
wjbl_leagues(),
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_pbp(play_schedule_id = 7987))
#> Error in wjbl_pbp(play_schedule_id = 7987) :
#> api.wjbl.01core.app/api/play-schedule/detail answered HTTP 503:
#> {"message":"Service Unavailable"}
# }