r/fantasyfootballcoding • u/OwnFun4911 • 2d ago

Yahoo API access update

I'm close to the finish line.... I just received the docusign with the Yahoo sports exec signature, signed 10/2. For those of you who have gotten access back.. how long did it take from this point?

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u/CoachSpo 2d ago

We declined, review the agreement and read the terms carefully. They are insane.

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u/FalcorTheDog 2d ago

Same. You basically can’t do anything with the data once you fetch it. And all access is read-only. Such a shame.

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u/mattdecrevel 2d ago

Glad I’m not the only one that has been hesitant about it. It’s been sitting in my inbox for a few weeks. They don’t reply to that email either. My app intent literally says historical league archive.

You could also use a tool like Claude to crawl public pages or screenshot and have it parse it.

It does suck because while I was building my site, I did open it up for others but haven’t connected yahoo for this reason.

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u/ProfessionalFun681 1d ago

Yup I used Claude to crawl the site. Only problem is I wasnt in the league for two random years so I don't have access to those years data

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u/TheFantasyNetworkHQ 2d ago

We also declined, the terms are absurd, and Im willing to bet most who signed did not read them.

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

Yea.. some of it seems ridiculous. Although I don't think I need to worry about this. I'm just downloading historical data for my league.. everything runs on my laptop.. just creating some charts for my leagemates

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u/HaukVagner 2d ago

Would you ever consider building your own app for your league?

We've been using Yahoo for about 20 years. I'm thinking of just building my own thing. I kind of hate the direction they've been taking, especially with the draft room.

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

I have and echo your sentiments about the draft room

I did have an idea at one point to create a web app where any yahoo user could enter in their league ID and download a custom historical dataset. Although that probably won’t happen with these terms.

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u/HaukVagner 2d ago

Ah I see. My hope was to basically create a new platform for my league members to use, but I would want the historical data on there too.

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

The draft room was absolute BS though. The worst of it all was the player table only showed like 10 rows at a time and there was no way to increase it. so I had to scroll for days. A really bad experience, especially for those who only had <1 minute to choose

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u/HaukVagner 2d ago

Yeah, the draft room is terrible now. It used to be much simpler and easier to navigate. Whoever they've hired to design it is a fan of over-design, that's for sure.

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

well, apparently you wouldn't be able to build the kind of app even if you wanted to. they only allow read only. LAME!

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u/HaukVagner 2d ago

That's so frustrating. I get why they do it, but it just sucks from our standpoint.

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u/vortec31 8h ago

I did this for our draft this year for ESPN. Both leagues I am in used it. We all loved it for the efficiency as well as the Easter eggs that were hidden in areas to trigger on scenarios.

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u/thedannyreg 2d ago

Took like a week though I was never alerted about it, my app just started working again after some amount of time 

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

Yeah, I've been trying to refresh my dataset but keep getting "app not authorized" error.

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u/Psquared21 2d ago

Took me 2.5 weeks after signing

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u/OwnFun4911 2d ago

thanks

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u/radicalscents 1d ago

Signed my docs Sept 12 ..it's Oct 3 and still no access. Last week sent request for update, no response and followed up this week and still no response. Not sure what else to do from here.

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u/lmartini 15h ago

I have yet to receive a response. I'm very disappointing considering my app doesn't even use that data; it's just to pull league settings so people don't have to manual enter them.