search_basketball_players
basketball-reference.comSearches https://www.basketball-reference.com for NBA, ABA, BAA, WNBA, and international players by name. Returns identifiers, active seasons, profile links, leagues, teams, nicknames, and source badges for each match.
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What is search_basketball_players?
Searches https://www.basketball-reference.com for NBA, ABA, BAA, WNBA, and international players by name. Returns identifiers, active seasons, profile links, leagues, teams, nicknames, and source badges for each match. It runs on Notte's browser infrastructure and returns structured JSON, so you can call it like any other API — pass query, limit_per_category and get the result back without maintaining a scraper.
Response
{
"query": "<string>",
"matches": [
{}
],
"source_url": "<string>",
"result_count": 0,
"category_counts": {},
"has_more_by_category": {},
"available_on_page_by_category": {}
}Call it
curl --location 'https://us-prod.notte.cc/functions/7c3fae72-31bb-41cf-b171-d2ac97a952d8/runs/start' \
--header 'x-notte-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
--data '{
"function_id": "7c3fae72-31bb-41cf-b171-d2ac97a952d8",
"variables": {
"query": "Johnson",
"limit_per_category": 10
}
}'Ask an agent
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Use the Anything API MCP server (https://anything.notte.cc/mcp). Call run(function_id="7c3fae72-31bb-41cf-b171-d2ac97a952d8") — the "search_basketball_players" function, which searches https://www.basketball-reference.com for NBA, ABA, BAA, WNBA, and international players by name. Returns identifiers, active seasons, profile links, leagues, teams, nicknames, and source badges for each match.. It takes query (str), limit_per_category (int). Return the result as structured JSON.