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NFL Quarterback Scraper

Scrape Wikipedia and nfl.com for the list of starting quarterbacks during the 2015 NFL season.

Installing

This code is build for Python 2.7. Use pip to install all the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

To scrape the websites run this script to update the .csv and .json files:

python scrape-names.py

The code will build a simple file-based local cache of the webpages so you can tweak the scraper without pinging their websites over an over again.

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