NBA Stats vs RacingHub

"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.

RacingHub is a Formula 1 statistics API spanning every season from 1950 to the present, exposing per-driver career records (wins, poles, podiums, points), race results, and analytical features like racecraft heatmaps and pit-stop strategy breakdowns, with official Python and JavaScript client libraries and an MCP server for querying the data conversationally. No API key is required -- a live keyless request to the real `racinghub.net/api/v1/drivers/...` backend returned genuine per-driver data (200) with a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header, resolving `cors: unknown -> yes`, though anonymous requests are rate-limited to 100/minute per the response headers.