UFC Data Extractor

Prerequisites:

• Python 3
• Pandas
• Numpy
• Beautiful soup
• tqdm

Description:

UFC Data Extractor is a Python script that makes it easy to gather and analyze data from the ufcstats.com. With this tool, you can extract data on fighters, events, and in-depth statistics, and save it to .csv files for further analysis.

Installation:

1. Clone Or download a local copy
2. Run each .ipynb notebook

Getting plan for extracting data effeciently:

Notebook: https://github.com/sagi778/UFC-Data-Extractor/tree/main/notebooks/updating_lists.ipynb

• Get ufc_matches_stats.csv last update time (if not exist will extract all data).
• Get list of events out of UFC website latter then last update time & save it to update_list_events.csv.
• Creating list of fighters who fought at update_list_events.csv & save it to update_list_fighters.csv

Getting Matches statistics:

Notebook: https://github.com/sagi778/UFC-Data-Extractor/blob/main/notebooks/matches_stats_web_scraping.ipynb

• Get list of link of events for update update_list_events.csv
• Loop through link list & extracting data from each event & save it to ufc_fighters_stats.csv

Getting Fighters statistics:

Notebook: https://github.com/sagi778/UFC-Data-Extractor/blob/main/notebooks/fighters_stats_web_scrape.ipynb

• Get list of link of fighters which required update from update_list_fighters.csv
• Loop through link list & extracting data to ufc_matches_stats.csv

Getting Next Card matches:

Notebook: https://github.com/sagi778/UFC-Data-Extractor/blob/main/notebooks/upcoming_web_scrape.ipynb

• Extracting upcoming event fights at Next Cards

What Next?:

Who will win? how?

• UFC Matches prediction: https://github.com/sagi778/ufc_fights_Predictor