Bucknell Bison APIbucknellbison.com ↗
Get the full Bucknell University men's lacrosse roster via API. Returns player name, position, class year, jersey number, and hometown for every athlete.
What is the Bucknell Bison API?
The Bucknell Bison men's lacrosse roster API exposes one endpoint, get_roster, that returns the complete current team roster with 5 data fields per player. Each response includes the total player count, along with an array of player records covering full name, position abbreviation, class year, jersey number, and hometown. No input parameters are required to retrieve the full dataset.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/0e548008-fb59-41d6-aa9d-5c3a3d144080/get_roster' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
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- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace bucknellbison-com-api
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"""Walkthrough: Bucknell Bison Men's Lacrosse roster — fetch and inspect players."""
from parse_apis.bucknellbison_com_api import BucknellBison, ParseError
client = BucknellBison()
# List all players on the current roster, capped at 10 for demonstration.
try:
for player in client.players.list(limit=10):
print(f"{player.jersey_number:>3} {player.full_name:<25} {player.position} {player.class_year} {player.hometown}")
except ParseError as e:
print(f"Roster unavailable: {e.code}")
# Grab just the first player to show .first() usage.
first_player = client.players.list(limit=1).first()
if first_player is not None:
print(f"\nFirst listed: {first_player.full_name}, #{first_player.jersey_number}")
print("\nexercised: players.list")
Returns the full current men's lacrosse roster. Each player record includes full name, position abbreviation, class year, jersey number, and hometown (city and state). The roster is returned in jersey-number order as displayed on the athletics site. One round trip to the roster page.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer count of players on the roster",
"players": "array of player objects with full_name, position, class_year, jersey_number, and hometown"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 47,
"players": [
{
"hometown": "Larchmont, N.Y.",
"position": "M",
"full_name": "Luke Brennan",
"class_year": "So.",
"jersey_number": "0"
},
{
"hometown": "Montclair, N.J.",
"position": "G",
"full_name": "Parker Day",
"class_year": "So.",
"jersey_number": "00"
},
{
"hometown": "Short Hills, N.J.",
"position": "A",
"full_name": "Crispin Kaye",
"class_year": "So.",
"jersey_number": "1"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Bucknell Bison API
What the API Returns
The single get_roster endpoint returns a total integer indicating how many players are on the active roster, plus a players array. Each object in that array contains full_name, position (as a standard lacrosse abbreviation such as ATT, MID, DEF, or GK), class_year (e.g. Fr., So., Jr., Sr.), jersey_number, and hometown as a city-and-state string.
Response Structure and Ordering
Results are ordered by jersey number, matching the display order on the Bucknell Athletics roster page. This makes it straightforward to render a squad list sorted by number without any client-side sorting. There are no required query parameters — a single call to get_roster returns the entire active roster in one response.
Data Scope
Coverage is scoped to the men's lacrosse program at Bucknell University. The data reflects the roster as currently published on the official Bucknell Bison athletics site. Fields like class_year and hometown allow applications to filter or group players by academic standing or geographic origin, which is useful for recruiting research, fan apps, and academic projects tracking athlete demographics.
The Bucknell Bison API is a managed, monitored endpoint for bucknellbison.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when bucknellbison.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official bucknellbison.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Build a fan-facing roster display sorted by jersey number using
jersey_numberandfull_namefields - Analyze geographic distribution of recruits by parsing the
hometownfield across all players - Filter the roster by
class_yearto identify senior players likely to age out of eligibility - Map player hometowns to visualize Bucknell lacrosse recruiting regions
- Track roster size changes over time by comparing the
totalfield across periodic snapshots - Populate a depth-chart prototype grouped by
positionabbreviations like ATT, MID, DEF, and GK
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Bucknell Athletics offer an official developer API for roster data?+
What does the `position` field contain — full text or abbreviations?+
position field returns the abbreviation as displayed on the Bucknell Athletics site, such as ATT for attacker, MID for midfielder, DEF for defender, and GK for goalkeeper. It is not expanded to a full position name in the response.