football_scraper

a library to save scott from having to learn to parse HTML

installation

• clone this repo
• pipenv shell and pipenv install
• if you don't want to use pipenv, the dependencies are just requests and bs4

usage

• python main.py will pull down NFL stats from the current year and save them to a sqlite database. see db.py for the very simple schema.
• you can optionally pass --start {year} or --end {year}to pull a range. both default to the current year.
• by default, the library ensures a minimum of two seconds between API requests. you can change this by passing --rate {seconds}, where seconds is the new minimum delay.

license

apache-2