USGA GHIN API

[Whirlwind]

I would be interested in it.

I ended up with a pretty twisted way of getting the data in to my MYSQL data base, but it requires I get an nightly handicap report by email for each of the clubs I am in.

to give you an idea.

1. Email send to my inbox. 
2. Email filter in Thunderbird that extracts the attachment and puts it in a folder on my PC.
3. Window Cron job that looks in that fold for any new files and if FTP's them to my Server.
4. Linux Cron that looks for that file and parses the file and inserts the into the DB.

D

[blagbogs]

On 8/13/2024 at 7:08 AM, howiekrauth said:

I know this is an old thread, but I have some code written in python to pull handicaps from the GHIN system.

I wound up here because I was curious if there is a public API for the GHIN system.  Does anyone know?

Let me know if you need the python code...

Dang. I've been brainstorming/designing an app that simply requires READ access to GHIN. The primary pro to being able to have authorized READ access to GHIN would be ensuring that users are actually using their GHIN which could limit the ability for them to game their scores. If anyone has any idea how to do so please hit me up.

[lanningb]

On 8/13/2024 at 8:08 AM, howiekrauth said:

I know this is an old thread, but I have some code written in python to pull handicaps from the GHIN system.

I wound up here because I was curious if there is a public API for the GHIN system.  Does anyone know?

Let me know if you need the python code...

I would be interested in seeing what you have done.  Just started working on a Golf Game app for my buddies. I have a few ideas, but have not had any luck pull updated handicaps through an API. So for, I have to do it manually and update the app.

[Bnoble]

On 8/13/2024 at 10:08 AM, howiekrauth said:

I know this is an old thread, but I have some code written in python to pull handicaps from the GHIN system.

I wound up here because I was curious if there is a public API for the GHIN system. Does anyone know?

Let me know if you need the python code...

If you still have that code available, I would love to get a copy. We have PowerShell code that pulls indexes and individual 9-hole handicaps for the tee sets of the course we play. We have 40 players and use this data for skins. We do skins by flight which we have 4 of them A,B,C,D and without pulling this data it would be almost impossible to do in the application. Right now, we also grab each "card" as it comes off the course and put it into a spreadsheet to help us understand who won the round and helps us with skins. Each golfer is required to enter their own scores in GHIN also. Our goal is to have each golfer enter in the scores in GHIN but pull the individual hole scores down each week after the round is posted so that we can figure skins, and points. I found a site for APIs, but it is old referencing https://api.ghin.com/api/v1. Our current code uses https://api2.ghin.com/api/v1. I tried using that along with what was provided in the old doc, but it appears many of the API signatures changed. I'm hoping I can use the python code to get examples of the API calls I need. if nothing else I could recode ours to use python.

[scott61]

I'm very interested in seeing your Python code. Can you email a link to me? Thanks!!!

[howiekrauth]

I have this working.  I'm using python and c#, and it's all displayed on a website I created.  Sorry for the delay, I haven't been on this site in quite a while.  This site helped a lot:  

https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/GHIN/Admin/1.0#/Club APIs/

I've done a bunch of work on this to get it working.  If any of you would like I can probably dump the information you need into a website.  I just need either GHIN ID's or a Club ID.

On 2/27/2022 at 10:37 PM, Zippo said:

Any of you folk out there programmers? I've been attempting to access the USGA GHIN API via VBA and JSON but, so far have not been completely successful. I've done the usual search thing on the interwebs but I thought I'd check and see if any of you had attempted this as well.

Dagnabbit! Sorry about the case use on the subject line - again.

 

[wwk3]

On 5/1/2025 at 1:56 PM, howiekrauth said:

I have this working.  I'm using python and c#, and it's all displayed on a website I created.  Sorry for the delay, I haven't been on this site in quite a while.  This site helped a lot:  

https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/GHIN/Admin/1.0#/Club APIs/

I've done a bunch of work on this to get it working.  If any of you would like I can probably dump the information you need into a website.  I just need either GHIN ID's or a Club ID.

 

@howiekrauth how did you get this working in Python? I am using the site you linked, trying to execute the API calls in that page, but am getting "Invalid Token". Did you have to go thru GHIN to get an API key somehow? A snippet of Python code for any simple GET request would be awesome. Thanks.

[howiekrauth]

@wwk3I can send you something if you give me a way to contact you.  I'd rather not just throw it out in public...

On 5/1/2025 at 9:41 AM, scott61 said:

I'm very interested in seeing your Python code. Can you email a link to me? Thanks!!!

@scott61 I can send you something - how do I get your email?

On 2/18/2025 at 5:08 PM, Bnoble said:

If you still have that code available, I would love to get a copy. We have PowerShell code that pulls indexes and individual 9-hole handicaps for the tee sets of the course we play. We have 40 players and use this data for skins. We do skins by flight which we have 4 of them A,B,C,D and without pulling this data it would be almost impossible to do in the application. Right now, we also grab each "card" as it comes off the course and put it into a spreadsheet to help us understand who won the round and helps us with skins. Each golfer is required to enter their own scores in GHIN also. Our goal is to have each golfer enter in the scores in GHIN but pull the individual hole scores down each week after the round is posted so that we can figure skins, and points. I found a site for APIs, but it is old referencing https://api.ghin.com/api/v1. Our current code uses https://api2.ghin.com/api/v1. I tried using that along with what was provided in the old doc, but it appears many of the API signatures changed. I'm hoping I can use the python code to get examples of the API calls I need. if nothing else I could recode ours to use python.

@Bnoble I use python to pull access codes, and c#/.Net to do the rest.  I could probably get you what you need.  Let me know how to get in touch with you and I'll see what I can do...

On 10/15/2024 at 11:30 PM, blagbogs said:

Dang. I've been brainstorming/designing an app that simply requires READ access to GHIN. The primary pro to being able to have authorized READ access to GHIN would be ensuring that users are actually using their GHIN which could limit the ability for them to game their scores. If anyone has any idea how to do so please hit me up.

@blagbogsLet me know how to get in touch with you directly via email.

On 8/13/2024 at 10:57 AM, Whirlwind said:

I would be interested in it.

I ended up with a pretty twisted way of getting the data in to my MYSQL data base, but it requires I get an nightly handicap report by email for each of the clubs I am in.

to give you an idea.

1. Email send to my inbox. 
2. Email filter in Thunderbird that extracts the attachment and puts it in a folder on my PC.
3. Window Cron job that looks in that fold for any new files and if FTP's them to my Server.
4. Linux Cron that looks for that file and parses the file and inserts the into the DB.

D

@WhirlwindLet me know how to get in touch - there is an easier way...

Edited July 7 by howiekrauth