mlb-brooks-pitch-importer

Import Pitch f/x logs corrected by Brooks Baseball

Installation

1. Clone this repository, preferably into a fresh virtualenv
2. Install reqs w/ Pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

This spider has three modes of operation:

1. Crawl all games, all pitchers (:heavy_check_mark: default)
2. Crawl specific seasons (e.g., all games in 2011) using -a years=<year>[,year...]
3. Crawl specific dates (e.g., only games played on 2010-04-18) using -a dates=<Y-m-d date>[,date...]

Results may optionally be filtered to a specific pitcher or set of pitchers using -a pitcher_ids=<pitcher id>[,pitcher id...]

Support Brooks

This would not be possible without the hard work done by Brooks Baseball. Read more about them here.

Examples

Import everything

To import all pitches across all time (presently 2010-2015) as write to a CSV file named all-seasons.csv:

$ scrapy crawl pitches -t csv -o all-seasons.csv

Note the -t csv, which tells the crawler to CSV-format its output.

Import all of 2014 and 2015's pitches

To import all pitches thrown in the 2014 and 2015 seasons and write to a JSON file named seasons-2014-2015.json:

$ scrapy crawl pitches -a years=2014,2015 -o seasons-2014-2015.json

Import a single pitcher's results from a single game

To import logs for player 462985 on Apr 18, 2010 and write results to a JSON file name 2010-04-18-462985.json:

$ scrapy crawl pitches -a dates=2010-04-18 -a pitcher_ids=462985 -o 2010-04-18-462985.json