Ians-Player-Predictions-Spider

A Python program that uses Scrapy to scrape baseball statistics from https://baseballsavant.mlb.com to use to calculate players that should start improving or getting worse.

Directions:

• Install Docker at https://www.docker.com/get-started
• Run source update.sh in terminal to set up Splash and install dependencies
• Navigate into Scrapy-Ians-Player-Predictions directory and run scrapy crawl PlayerSpider -o data.json to run spider
• Check Scrapy-Ians-Player-Predictions directory for data.json, which will hold the output of PlayerSpider.

Other Information:

• An up to date output of this spider is kept in this AWS S3 bucket.
• The data scraped using this spider is used for the Ians-Player-Predictions repository.