FootballScraper

Football Scraper is a Python-based project that scrapes football match data from the English Championship and retrieves match links from a the ESPN website. It provides an efficient and easy-to-use way to collect football match data for analysis.

I have already found that the data seems to be at odds with other sources, but the data is correct as the website displays it.

Features

• Scrape match links and store them in a file for future use
• Generate a list of dates for the football season
• Retrieve match data using BeautifulSoup and requests

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/football-data-scraper.git

2. Change into the project directory:

cd football-data-scraper

3. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

I have started some analysis in the FootballScraper_App.py file so to demonstrate the way to use the code.

python FootballScraper_App.py

Configuration

• config.base_url: Base URL of the website being scraped
• config.url: URL containing the date placeholder
• config.date_placeholder: Placeholder string for the date
• config.data_fld: Directory where the match links file is stored

Contributing

Feel free to submit pull requests or raise issues to help improve the project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.