Player statistics

GET https://nhl.highlightly.net/players/{id}/statistics NHL & NCAAH API
GET https://sports.highlightly.net/nhl/players/{id}/statistics All Sports API

Retrieve detailed statistics for one player.

Refresh interval
Once a day
Aggregation
Per season

The player id comes from players.

Per season

Statistics are aggregated per season in perSeason. Each entry names its coverage in seasonBreakdown.

Coverage Includes
Entire Regular season and post season combined. Pre season is not included.
Season Regular season only.

Pick the one that matches the question. A season including the playoffs wants Entire, while a regular season comparison between players wants Season, since playoff appearances are not evenly distributed.

Statistic categories

Category Covers
General Overall metrics including minutes, games, fouls, shootouts and penalties.
Offense Goals, shots, shootouts, assists and faceoffs.
Defense Defensive impact such as saves and hits.
Penalties

Penalty related metrics, including why a penalty occurred and how often the player scored or missed from the resulting situations.

Each stat names its category. The stats returned are the ones relevant to the player's position.

Player statistics rendered in a client application

Parameters

Parameter Type Description
idrequired numberpath Requested player id.

Request

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://nhl.highlightly.net/players/{id}/statistics' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'
const response = await fetch('https://nhl.highlightly.net/players/{id}/statistics', {
  headers: {
    'x-rapidapi-key': process.env.HIGHLIGHTLY_API_KEY
  }
})

if (!response.ok) {
  throw new Error(`Highlightly responded ${response.status}`)
}

const data = await response.json()
import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://nhl.highlightly.net/players/{id}/statistics',
    headers={
        'x-rapidapi-key': os.environ['HIGHLIGHTLY_API_KEY'],
    },
    timeout=10,
)

response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

Response

idnumberrequired
fullNamestring
logostring
perSeasonNhlNcaaDetailedPlayerStatisticsPerSeason[]required14 fields
statsNhlNcaaStatEntry[]requiredRelevant stats for player position.3 fields
namestringrequired
valuenumberrequired
categorystringrequiredGeneralDefenseOffensePenalties
teamsNhlNcaaDetailedPlayerSummaryTeam[]requiredTeams for which the player played in a given season.6 fields
idnumberrequired
logostring
namestringrequired
leaguestringrequired
displayNamestringrequired
abbreviationstringrequired
leaguestringrequired
seasonnumberrequired
seasonBreakdownstringrequiredRepresents the coverage for the stored statistics. Pre-season is never included.EntireSeason

Example response

200 application/json
[
  {
    "id": 58504952,
    "fullName": "Colin White",
    "logo": "",
    "perSeason": [
      {
        "stats": [
          {
            "name": "Total Assists",
            "value": 7,
            "category": "Offense"
          }
        ],
        "teams": [
          {
            "id": 20,
            "logo": "https://highlightly.net/nhl/images/teams/20.png",
            "name": "Senators",
            "league": "NHL",
            "displayName": "Ottawa Senators",
            "abbreviation": "OTT"
          }
        ],
        "league": "Nhl",
        "season": 2022,
        "seasonBreakdown": "Entire"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Values are the examples declared in the OpenAPI spec, not a captured live response.

Errors

Status Description
400 Bad request descriptive error.
500 Internal server error.