UFC Web Scraping Script

This sript used BeautifulSoup to scrape data from ufcstats.com. Simply run main.py, and it will scrape data from ufcstats.com into the following four tables:

• UFC Events
• UFC Fights
• UFC Fight Stats
• UFC Fighters

Each table is saved as a csv file. Each time you run the script run, it will update the existing files with any new fights/fighters.

I created this script to make my own dataset to upload to Kaggle, which you can find here:

• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/remypereira/mma-dataset-2023-ufc

I also used this data for my first data analysis project, which looks at how gender affects fight stats:

• https://www.kaggle.com/code/remypereira/battle-of-the-sexes-does-gender-affect-fights

This is my first attempt at creating a web-scraping script, so any feedback is appreciated!