mattdodge / mlb-player-scraper

Scrape players and statistics from various sources, then merge them together!

MLB-Player-Scraper

It's often useful to scrape and parse player projections from various sources (i.e. ESPN, Yahoo, Rotowire, etc). This tool hopes to facilitate that process.

The tool is built on top of the Scrapy Framework for Python.

Requirements

pip install scrapy unidecode

How do I use the thing?

git clone https://github.com/mattdodge/MLB-Player-Scraper mlbScrape
cd mlbScrape
scrapy crawl <spider-name> -o output.csv -t csv

Current Spiders

• espnBatters2013
  ESPN 2013 Batter Stats
• espnPitchers2013
  ESPN 2013 Pitcher Stats
• espnBatters
  ESPN 2014 Batter Projections
• espnPitchers
  ESPN 2014 Pitcher Projections
• yahooBatters
  Yahoo 2014 Batter Projections (requires Yahoo league ID, username/pass)
• yahooPitchers
  Yahoo 2014 Pitcher Projections (requires Yahoo league ID, username/pass)

License

If you can get it to work, you can use it