ivypy 0.1

A package for retrieving ivy league sports data

Introduction

ivypy is a package to retrieve ivy league sports statistics via scraping. It provides a few method for doing so.

retrieve

retrieve is a method which allows a user to get dat as a list of dictionaries. retrieve has the following call pattern:

retrieve(sport, endpoint, gender=”m”, year=”current”)

where sport is the relevant sport, endpoint is the data you want, gender is the gender for the sport and year is either “current” for the current year or an integer for a previous year. For example to get the standings for men’s basketball in 2013:

>>> standings = retrieve("basketball", "standings", year=2013)
>>> for row in standings: print(row)
{'overall': u'27-5', 'ivy': u'13-1', 'team': 'Harvard'}
{'overall': u'19-14', 'ivy': u'9-5', 'team': 'Yale'}
{'overall': u'21-9', 'ivy': u'8-6', 'team': 'Princeton'}
{'overall': u'21-13', 'ivy': u'8-6', 'team': 'Columbia'}
{'overall': u'15-14', 'ivy': u'7-7', 'team': 'Brown'}
{'overall': u'12-16', 'ivy': u'5-9', 'team': 'Dartmouth'}
{'overall': u'8-20', 'ivy': u'5-9', 'team': 'Penn'}
{'overall': u'2-26', 'ivy': u'1-13', 'team': 'Cornell'}