Credits & Data Sources
In The Rafters is built on free, public, well-documented data sources. We don’t use a paid stat provider. Here’s what feeds each section:
- ESPN public APIs — scoreboard, summary, standings, team injuries, athletes. The same endpoints that power espn.com’s own scoreboard pages.
- Open-Meteo — free weather forecasts (no API key required) for outdoor-sport game pages.
- Wikimedia Commons — reusable player and venue photography, filtered to public-domain, CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-SA files with visible source and license attribution.
- WordPress.com REST — every page and post on the site is created and updated through the standard /wp/v2 endpoints.
- Anthropic Claude — drafts the editorial body of news articles inside the sports-desk pipeline.
Team names, logos, and league marks remain the property of their respective leagues and clubs. Player pages may use separately sourced, free-license Wikimedia Commons editorial photos with visible attribution; the player card-art field remains reserved for owned/generated work.
The full automation source lives at github.com/jsilvs-sudo/intherafters-automation.