I have a little code for scraping info from fbref (link for data: https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/stats/Premier-League-Stats) and it worked well but now I have some problems with some features (I've checked that the fields which don't work now are"player","nationality","position","squad","age","birth_year"). I have also checked that the fields have the same name in the web that it used to be. Any ideas/help to solve the problem?
Many Thanks!
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import re
import sys, getopt
import csv
def get_tables(url):
res = requests.get(url)
## The next two lines get around the issue with comments breaking the parsing.
comm = re.compile("<!--|-->")
soup = BeautifulSoup(comm.sub("",res.text),'lxml')
all_tables = soup.findAll("tbody")
team_table = all_tables[0]
player_table = all_tables[1]
return player_table, team_table
def get_frame(features, player_table):
pre_df_player = dict()
features_wanted_player = features
rows_player = player_table.find_all('tr')
for row in rows_player:
if(row.find('th',{"scope":"row"}) != None):
for f in features_wanted_player:
cell = row.find("td",{"data-stat": f})
a = cell.text.strip().encode()
text=a.decode("utf-8")
if(text == ''):
text = '0'
if((f!='player')&(f!='nationality')&(f!='position')&(f!='squad')&(f!='age')&(f!='birth_year')):
text = float(text.replace(',',''))
if f in pre_df_player:
pre_df_player[f].append(text)
else:
pre_df_player[f] = [text]
df_player = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(pre_df_player)
return df_player
stats = ["player","nationality","position","squad","age","birth_year","games","games_starts","minutes","goals","assists","pens_made","pens_att","cards_yellow","cards_red","goals_per90","assists_per90","goals_assists_per90","goals_pens_per90","goals_assists_pens_per90","xg","npxg","xa","xg_per90","xa_per90","xg_xa_per90","npxg_per90","npxg_xa_per90"]
def frame_for_category(category,top,end,features):
url = (top + category + end)
player_table, team_table = get_tables(url)
df_player = get_frame(features, player_table)
return df_player
top='https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/'
end='/Premier-League-Stats'
df1 = frame_for_category('stats',top,end,stats)
df1
If you're only after the player stats, change player_table = all_tables[1] to player_table = all_tables[2], because now you are feeding team table into get_frame function.
I tried it and it worked fine after that.