NFL Boxscore: Document is Empty

Describe the bug Trying to pull boxscores for the 2021 NFL season and result is error saying “Document is empty”

To Reproduce Sample code which causes an issue.

!pip install sportsipy

from sportsipy.nfl.boxscore import Boxscores, Boxscore

game_str = Boxscores(7,2021).games['7-2021'][0]['boxscore']
game_stats = Boxscore(game_str)
game_stats.dataframe

Expected behavior would like to see the boxscores of the games played week 7 of the 2021 season

software Using Google Colab on Chrome

[CodeeMcCoderson]

@RichardSJTotten to fix the problem that I had, which seems almost identical to yours, is I changed the sportsipy module directly on my hard drive. I did not pull down the fix that I posted earlier.

If you navigate to where you have your modules stored on your local machine, find the ‘sportsipy’ module and got into it. Then go into the ‘nfl’ module and click on the ‘constants.py’ scripts.

Within that script navigate to line 81 and change this line of code: ‘home_name’: ‘a[itemprop=“name”]:first’, To this: ‘home_name’: ‘div[class=“linescore_wrap”] table tbody tr:last td:nth-child(2)’,

Next go to line 84 and change this line of code: ‘away_name’: ‘a[itemprop=“name”]:last’, To this: ‘away_name’: ‘div[class=“linescore_wrap”] table tbody tr:first td:nth-child(2)’,

After changing it, save the script, navigate to your script that was throwing the error and run it again. It should work.

Let me know if anything was not clear or if it does not work, I will try and help more.

[ericmk52]

@CodeeMcCoderson It looks like this patch works for previous games that have already been played, but I am still getting this DocumentEmpty error for any games that have not been played yet

The fix appears to work for all seasons prior to the current 2022 season.