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.gitignore

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+# Ignore output of scraper
+data.sqlite

README.textile

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+Scrapes fantasy football data from the official premier league website. Each record shows the stats for each player for each week.

scraper.php

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+<?php
+require 'scraperwiki/simple_html_dom.php'; 
+
+// get base url
+$url = 'http://fantasy.premierleague.com/web/api/elements/';
+
+//should create automatic method to find range of pages
+#$lastplayer=
+
+//set range of players to look through - currently there are 675
+$players=range(1,675);
+#$players=range(1,$lastplayer);
+
+//need to add specific numbers such as Jan transfers to array
+
+//scrape page for each player
+foreach($players as $player)
+{
+$html = scraperwiki::scrape($url.$player);
+
+// load html into dom
+$dom = new simple_html_dom();
+    $dom->load($html);
+
+//turn dom into a string
+$json = $dom;
+
+//make the json string an array which i confusingly call an object
+$obj = json_decode($json);
+
+//Test:
+#print_r($obj);
+
+//get the fixture history for the player
+foreach($obj->fixture_history->all as $rows)
+{
+
+//create results table
+$results = array(
+    'index' => strval($player.$rows[1]),
+    'first_name' => strval($obj->first_name),
+    'last_name' => strval($obj->web_name),
+    'position' => strval($obj->type_name),
+    'team_name' => strval($obj->team_name),
+    'date' => strval($rows[0]),
+    'week' => strval($rows[1]),
+    'result' => strval($rows[2]),
+    'minutes_played' => strval($rows[3]),
+    'goals_scored'=>strval($rows[4]),
+    'assists'=>strval($rows[5]),
+    'clean_sheets'=>strval($rows[6]),
+    'goals_conceded'=>strval($rows[7]),
+    'own_goals'=>strval($rows[8]),
+    'penalties_saved'=>strval($rows[9]),
+    'penalties missed'=>strval($rows[10]),
+    'yellow_cards'=>strval($rows[11]),
+    'red_cards'=>strval($rows[12]),
+    'saves'=>strval($rows[13]),
+    'bonus'=>strval($rows[14]),
+    'EA_Spots_PPI'=>strval($rows[15]),
+    'net_transfers'=>strval($rows[16]),
+    'value'=>strval($rows[17]),
+    'points'=>strval($rows[18]),
+
+);
+
+//check results
+#print_r($results);
+
+//save
+scraperwiki::save(array('index'),$results);
+}
+
+}
+?>