Maintaining an expanded derivative — Courtside Data

[nickth3man]

Hi Jae,

I've been actively maintaining an expanded fork of basketball_reference_web_scraper and wanted to reach out as a courtesy.

What's changed since forking:

• Expanded from 10 to ~50 endpoints (league, player, team, draft, awards, playoffs)
• Added generic table parsing (parsel-based) for Basketball Reference's commented-out DOM tables
• Added rate limiting with configurable intervals and jitter
• Added session reuse and connection pooling
• Added fixture-based test infrastructure for all new endpoints
• Updated packaging (pyproject.toml, uv, Python 3.9+)

Attribution:

• LICENSE preserves your original copyright with a dual copyright line for my modifications
• README includes a Lineage and Attribution section crediting you and all original contributors
• The project is now independently named Courtside Data and has been detached as a standalone repository

I've renamed the repo and unforked it on GitHub. The package will be published under a new name to avoid any confusion with the original.

Repo: https://github.com/nickth3man/courtside-data

Happy to discuss anything about attribution, contribute useful changes back upstream, or collaborate if you're interested in reviving the original project. No hard feelings if not — just wanted to make sure everything is above board.

Thanks for building the foundation. It's a great project.

— Nicolas

[jaebradley]

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the note - and thanks for expanding the current scope of project.

I have absolutely no qualms with the unforking or publishing this project under a new name.

I appreciate the attribution that already exists in courtside-data's README.md; I have no additional asks right now when it comes to giving the underlying project and/or other collaborators recognition.

Just a head's up - obviously, I have not made any modifications to this project in some time, but I've been thinking about making some changes in the not-so-distant future.

Thanks again for reaching out and all the great work you've done in courtside-data!