Get W League Player

Player profile: current team, names, bio and career notes, one row.

Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/player

Usage

wjbl_player(player_id)

Arguments

player_id: Player id (player_id in wjbl_box_score or wjbl_roster): the person, stable across seasons, e.g. 9799.

Value

A wehoop_data tibble, one row per record; the columns are always these, in this order (sdv-py wjbl_player):

col_name	type	description
player_id	integer	Player id player_id (key space: W League persons, STABLE across seasons and teams). The player_id of /player and the pi= of the site's /player/detail?pi=; joins the play-by-play player_id1 / player_id2.
player_name	character	Name in Japanese, 'SURNAME GIVEN'.
player_name_en	character	Name in romaji, uppercase, 'SURNAME GIVEN' ('OKAMOTO MIYUU').
player_furigana	character	Name reading in hiragana ((Japanese text)).
team_id	integer	Current (or last) 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.
season_team_name	character	Team name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes).
season_team_short_name	character	Short team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota).
season_team_player_number	character	Shirt number this season, a string.
team_logo_image	character	Team logo path, relative to https://www.wjbl.org ('/static/images/base_team/...png' or '/assets/img/team/...png').
team_url	character	Team's own website URL.
player_birthday	character	Date of birth 'YYYY/MM/DD' (public player bio).
player_nickname	character	Nickname, Japanese.
player_position	character	Playing position code ('PG', 'SG', 'SF', 'PF', 'C').
player_home_town	character	Home prefecture, Japanese (Hokkaido).
player_height	character	Height with unit, a string ('179cm').
player_weight	character	Weight with unit, a string ('77kg').
player_height_cm	integer	Height in whole centimetres, parsed from player_height ('179cm').
player_weight_kg	integer	Weight in whole kilograms, parsed from player_weight ('77kg').
player_affiliation_history	character	Career path, Japanese, (Japanese text)-separated (mini-basketball club (Japanese) junior high (Japanese) high school (Japanese) university (Japanese) team).
player_independent_flg	integer	Retired flag (the site greys the team and hides the number): 1 = retired / no longer registered, 0 = active.
player_national_team	character	National-team history, Japanese free text (Universiade).
player_awards	character	Awards and honours, Japanese free text.
player_coach_history	character	Coaching history (for players who became coaches); empty string in the sample.
player_coach_record	character	Coaching record; empty string in the sample.
player_picture	character	Photo path relative to https://www.wjbl.org.
player_wjbl_flg	integer	1 = a W League player (0 presumably for others; unverified).
player_rookie	integer	Rookie ((Japanese) icon): 1 = yes, 0 = no.
player_early_entry	integer	Early-entry player ((Japanese), a student who joined before graduating): 1 = yes, 0 = no.
player_foreign_national_flg	integer	Foreign national ((Japanese) icon): 1 = yes, 0 = no.
player_naturalized_flg	integer	Naturalised player ((Japanese) icon): 1 = yes, 0 = no.
player_appeal	character	Self-introduction text; empty string in the sample.
player_championships	character	Championships text; empty string in the sample.
player_url	character	Personal website URL; empty string in the sample.
player_facebook_url	character	Facebook URL; empty string in the sample.
player_twitter_url	character	X (Twitter) URL; empty string in the sample.
player_instagram_url	character	Instagram URL; empty string in the 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) and wehoop_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; transient is TRUE for 408 / 429 / 5xx and transport failures). HTTP 500 is retried. Wrappers raise; they never warn and return an empty frame.

 wjbl_player(player_id = 9799)

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