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nanodino / nwsl-fantasy-helper

A repository of utilities for NWSL fantasy
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Find whether Fotmob or FBref is better to scrape data from #1

Closed nanodino closed 1 year ago

krcm17 commented 2 years ago

i think with either one, you would have to do it box score by box score.

nanodino commented 2 years ago

yeah for sure, it's a matter of which one has a more predictable way to handle match URLs, and secondarily which one has easier to parse HTML. The worst thing that can happen is I write a script and it fails to find some games.

nanodino commented 1 year ago

strange behaviour when using fotmob:

driver.find_element_by_id("MatchFactsWrapper") works in debug mode but not when invoked from within the code.

It's also clear fbref would be easier to scrape based on how the data is presented. I'm closing this issue, we can determine whether moving to fotmob is worth it once we have a working program.