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NBA Stats vs Padel Snipe
"NBA Stats" refers to stats.nba.com, the unofficial internal API that powers NBA.com's own statistics pages rather than a published, supported product -- there's no official developer signup or docs, and its former any-api.com docs mirror now permanently redirects to an unrelated marketplace. The community-maintained swar/nba_api project (and its companion documentation site) is the best available reference, covering box scores, play-by-play, shot charts, and historical stats back to the 1996-97 season. No API key is required, but requests must spoof browser-like headers to get past NBA's bot filtering, and access is blocked outright from many data-center IP ranges -- treat it as an unofficial, goodwill-rate-limited source, not a guaranteed-uptime service.
Padel Snipe indexes roughly 4,000 padel clubs -- courts, GPS coordinates, and booking-platform source -- spanning 34 countries, concentrated in Italy, Spain, the UK, and France but reaching as far as the US and parts of Central America, a wider footprint than the handful of European markets sometimes cited for it. The single `/api/world/clubs` endpoint needs no key, returns JSON or CSV behind a 24-hour CDN cache, and is licensed CC BY 4.0 so results can be reused commercially with attribution.
| NBA Stats | Padel Snipe | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, CSV |
| CORS | unknown | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Padel Snipe supports CORS, while NBA Stats doesn't — pick Padel Snipe for direct browser calls.