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NBA Stats vs Padel Snipe

NBA Stats

"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

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 StatsPadel Snipe
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON, CSV
CORSunknownyes
HTTPSYesYes

Padel Snipe supports CORS, while NBA Stats doesn't — pick Padel Snipe for direct browser calls.

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