eliteprospect_scraper

Package to scrape ice hockey data from eliteprospect.com.

My aim is to keep the package up-to-date so that it works also when the webpage structure is changing. If something is not working please reach out so that we can fix it.

Please only use collected data for personal use - there are real APIs for professional usage of eliteprospects data.

Getting started

Install the package with pip
pip install eliteprospect_scraper

Import module import eliteprospect.eliteprospect_scraper as ep

Show function descriptions with
help(ep)

Functions

Descriptions of the functions in the package.

getPlayers(league, year)

Get all players for a specific year and league from the page with structure 'https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/' + league + '/stats/' + year Example: https://www.eliteprospects.com/league/shl/stats/2016-2017

The function takes input parameters league and year

• League: valid league from eliteprospects
• year: valid combination of year in format 2015-2016, 2016-2017 etc.

Example:
getPlayers('shl', '2015-2016')

The page contains pagination, and the function loops over 10 pages. This is typically enough to extract all players.

getGoalies(league, year)

Same as getPlayers, but returns dataframe with goalies.

getPlayerMetadata(dfplayers)

Create dataframe with metadata by players.
Input is dataframe created with function getPlayers

getPlayerStats(playerlinks)

Create dataframe with all statistics from playerpages.
Takes a series of playerlinks as input. Playerlinks are also included in return output from getPlayerMetadata

ep.getPlayerStats(["https://eliteprospects.com/player/2050/mattias-ritola"])

dataprep_players(playerstats, league_mapping, players):

dataprep_players(playerstats, league_mapping, players) Takes series of playerlinks to eliteprospect-profiles, Return dataframe with stats by player and season

Example Notebook

See this notebook for examples of how to use the package, and in what order you can run the functions.

eliteprospect_scraper

Package to scrape hockey data from eliteprospect

[1.2] - 2024-09-12

Added

• New function getGoalies(), to extract also Goaltender links similar to getPlayers().

Fixed

• The getPlayers() now accepts input league "Hockeyallsvenskan" (swedish 2nd league) instead of "Allsvenskan". Allsvenskan is a legacy name used before 2012 season.