lahman_updater 1.0.0

lahman-updater
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Update the 2014 Lahman database to most recent data, including
in-season.

Uses data scrapes from baseball-reference and downloads from Chadwick
Bureau.

Can also be used to add expanded stats to prior years.

Working but still in progress.

Notes:
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- written for python 2.7.11
- requires spynner, beautifulsoup4 and pymysql
- Spynner is tough to install. easy\_install spynner - spynner has no pip
- Edit data/db\_details.txt with your database access information.
- Run with –setup and set –strict if you prefer the 2014 Lahman schema.

ISSUES:
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- spynner dependencies (PyQt and SIP) are problematic to install in virtualenvs
- Recommended to not use virtual env or to manually install packages.
- Potential (untested) vitualenv fix here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22640640/how-to-install-pyqt4-on-windows-using-pip
- Spynner throws errors that I've been unable to catch. This does not seem to affect performance.

Flags:
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| -flag | –flag | description |
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| | –setup | initial update of 2014 db to current data |
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| | –reset | reset db to 2014, remove expanded data if present |
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| -v | –verbose | increase verbosity. default warnings only. -v add info, -vv add debug |
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| -x | –expand | enters expanded stats into db for year given |
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| -s | –strict | maintains schema of 2014 db |
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| -y | –year | year to be updated/expanded, defaults to current season |
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| -i | –ignore | force update |
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| -f | –fielding | include fielding data, scrape is time consuming |
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| -e | –expiry | set allowable age of data in days, default 1 |
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| -c | –chadwick | download new chadwick data, ~35Mb |
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| -d | –dbloginfile | path to db login details |
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