Fork of code from ScraperWiki at https://classic.scraperwiki.com/scra…

…pers/fantasy_football_scraper_-_premierleaguecom/

.gitignore

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+# Ignore output of scraper
+data.sqlite

README.textile

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+Downloads information Fantasy Football player information on a weekly basis from premierleague.com.

scraper.py

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+import scraperwiki
+import json
+from datetime import date
+
+for i in range(1,1000):
+    try:
+        jsonPage = scraperwiki.scrape('http://fantasy.premierleague.com/web/api/elements/%d/'%(i))
+        playerObj = json.loads(jsonPage)
+        table_name = 'data' + str(date.today())
+        scraperwiki.sqlite.save(unique_keys=['id'], data=playerObj, table_name=table_name)
+    except:
+        print 'Stopped at %d'%(i)
+        break