NBA Api timeout

[Fablepongiste]

Has nba API changed the way they protect themselves from being called ?
Getting issues since this morning with all my requests timing out

[lupka]

I'm seeing this also since last night. It was my first time trying out these endpoints so I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong, but even just visiting those URLs they seem to time out.

[mfeiny]

also been having this the last 2 days. Has anyone gotten through?

[lapisas]

I haven't had any access problems today or yesterday. Although I have noticed recently that the api has been a bit more unpredictable in when it cuts off access and for how long it cuts it off for. I had seen 600 api calls pretty reliably for awhile before cutoff, with an hour wait until it opens up again. Recently that 600 number is the high end but sometimes it cuts off after 100-200 calls, and doesn't always return access in an hour.

[dczernic]

I have been having the same problems as those mentioned above despite multiple attempts

[mjl4sam]

Thanks to ChatGPT, I think I found a fix for this (at least for the timeouts I was receiving). You need to add headers to all the API calls. I was going nuts the last few days.

`headers = {
"Host": "stats.nba.com",
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"Accept": "application/json, text/plain, /",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7)",
"Referer": "https://www.nba.com/",
"Origin": "https://www.nba.com",
"x-nba-stats-origin": "stats",
"x-nba-stats-token": "true",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9"
}

#get data
leaguegames = nba.LeagueGameFinder(league_id_nullable='00', headers=headers)`

[dczernic]

You are a legend - thank you this worked!

[JoKuebler]

I tried using all the headers mentioned by @mjl4sam. Unfortunately, still timing out. It's strange, I didnt change anything, just stopped working this morning for me and seems not to be coming back so far.

[tofu-utahjazz]

We have been having this same issue since the early morning of 3/12/2026.

[iaingidley]

Still having the same issue, even with the proposed headers.