A Football stats scraper

This command-line tool can retrieve football stats from the flashcore website. It uses the python scraping package, selenium.

Stats recuperated

We get the statistics on this type of page :

You can retrieve all types of stats that are offered on these pages by modifying the params.yml file.

All the stats are stored in a csv file.

Getting started

Dependencies

• The chromedriver (download here)
• Python librairies : csv, argprse, tqdm, selenium, pyyaml

Configuration

The repo is organized like this :

├── scraper
│   ├── scraper.py
│   └── ...
├── params.yml
├── images
└── ...

The params.yml file contains the urls and the stats that the program will scrape :

• Valid params stats are the titles of the stats found on the flashscore pages.
• Valid url params are flashscore urls that end with /results (ex: https://www.flashscore.com/football/italy/series-a-2018-2019/results/)

Launch

• Normal mode

python3 scraper.py [url file path] [csv file] 

• Verbose mode

python3 scraper.py [url file path] [csv file] -v