March 2024 NHL API Update Impacting scrape_game

[RealZLock]

hi, a few other scrapers on twitter have discussed this, but this week there was an update to the NHL API that has moved some things like play-by-play period number and some boxscore information. Getting "WARNING: src/learner.cc:1517: Empty dataset at worker: 0" when using the scrape_game function and just have a ton of blank columns, most important being game_seconds and period on the play-by-play data.

thanks!

[RealZLock]

this adjustment to scrape_game function fixes it as far as i can tell

unnest game plays

plays <- site$plays %>%
dplyr::tibble() %>%
tidyr::unnest_wider(1) %>%
dplyr::select(-c(typeCode)) %>%
tidyr::unnest_wider(details) %>%
tidyr::unnest_wider(periodDescriptor) %>%
dplyr::rename(period=number)

[Saarialho]

Might be related to this, I see 53 col names that are not in 2023 data and 28 col names from 2023 that are not in 2024 data. The xG variable, for example, is missing totally from the Mar 9, 2024 updated pbp data