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Score line of a game: both scores and the clock text.

Endpoint: GET https://lkl.lt/api/livestream/game-score/{game_id}

Usage

lkl_game_score(game_id)

Arguments

game_id

Required. lkl.lt game id (integer), e.g. 11446; game_id in lkl_results. Not sequential by season before 2018-19. Only a finished game is served.

Value

A hoopR_data tibble. One row: the two scores and the clock text. The clock is NOT a state flag: an old game keeps '1 KELINYS - 10:00' after the final, and a finished overtime game reads '1 pratesimas - 00:00'. A body without scores gives a zero-row tibble. Every column below is always present (a zero-row tibble keeps them and their types); an answer with nothing in it raises hoopR_no_data, as in sportsdataverse-py.

col_nametypedescription
game_idintegerlkl.lt game id (key space: LKL games; the {gameId} of every route). Not sequential by season before 2018-19; not the Genius matchId. A frame parsed from a bare body has a null game_id when the body does not echo it (the runtime stamps it under _request).
home_scoreintegerHome team points on the score line.
away_scoreintegerAway team points on the score line.
clockcharacterClock text, NOT a state flag: an old game keeps '1 KELINYS - 10:00' after the final; a finished overtime game reads '1 pratesimas - 00:00'.

Details

Unofficial and unsupported: these are the routes lkl.lt's own game page calls (found in its front-end bundle) and its server-rendered pages. The site's robots.txt allows everything and sets no crawl-delay; the runtime still spaces requests at least 1 s apart. The site's terms were not reviewed; check them before you republish the data.

Coverage: game wrappers serve FINISHED games only (an unfinished game raises hoopR_asset_fetch). The box score, summary, score line, statistics and leaders answer for every season from 1993-94 (before 2024-25 the scoring splits and lead statistics are 0). Play-by-play and shots exist from 2024-25 only; an earlier finished game raises hoopR_no_data. From 2016-17 the results season id is also the Genius LiveStats competition id (see the genius family) which holds play-by-play for older games; lkl.lt game, team and player ids are lkl.lt's own and do not join Genius ids. The King Mindaugas Cup shares the routes but is not wrapped. Text fields are Lithuanian.

Errors: hoopR_no_data when lkl.lt has nothing for the request (HTTP 404, an unknown game or standings season, a season the site's selects do not list, a season without played games, a finished game before 2024-25 asked for play-by-play or shots); hoopR_bad_request for a game id or season that is not an integer, or HTTP 400 / 422; hoopR_asset_fetch when the fetch failed or the answer is not the one asked for (an unfinished game, a body or page for another game or season, an error or changed body, a truncated results list). All inherit hoopR_error. Dates and times are Lithuanian local (Europe/Vilnius) as the site prints them.

 lkl_game_score(game_id = 11446)