PLAY BY PLAY AND BOX SCORE SCRAPING LIBRARY

Requirements

This library was created on a Mac, so the setup instructions are geared toward a *nix environment (sorry Windows users)

• Python 2.5 or greater
• BeautifulSoup4 (pip install beautifulsoup4)
• lxml (used within BeautifulSoup) (pip install lxml)

Instructions

• Clone the repository to your local machine (change your_folder_path to whatever folder you want to put the repo)

cd your_folder_path
git clone git@github.com:kpascual/basketball-data-scraper.git

• Add this new directory to your PYTHONPATH in ~/.bash_profile

PYTHONPATH="/your_folder_path/basketball-data-scraper:$PYTHONPATH"
export PYTHONPATH

• Run the build.sh script

sh build.sh database_username database_password database_name

To actually do scraping, run the scrape.py file. You will be asked what league you want to run.

python scrape.py