NBA Data Scraper

Introduction

NBA Data Scraper is a Python library designed to scrape game shots data from a specific basketball-related website (Basketball Reference). It is structured to handle requests efficiently and respectfully using rate limiting to avoid overloading the server (bot traffic). On that note, all use of data acquired should respect the website's terms of use.

📂 Structure

nba-data-scraper/
│
├── nba-data-scraper/
│ ├── init.py
│ ├── utils/
│ │ ├── init.py
│ │ └── _logger.py
│ ├── _abstract.py
│ ├── _data_scraper.py
│ └── scraper.py
│
├── tests/
│ ├── init.py
│ └── ...
│
├── docs/
│ └── ...
│
├── examples/
│ └── ...
│
├── .gitignore
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── setup.py

🔧 Installation

pip install nba-data-scraper

Usage

Scrape Player Data

from nba_data_scraper import NBAScraper
nba_scraper = NBAScraper()

# Scrapes player data for the letter 'a'
player_data = nba_scraper.scrape_player_data('a')  

Scrape Schedule Data

# Scrapes games played in a specific year and month
schedule_data = nba_scraper.scrape_schedule_data(year='2023', month='january') 

# Scrapes games played in given list of years and months
schedule_data = nba_scraper.scrape_schedule_data(year=['2022','2023'], month=['january','february'])

# Scrapes all games played given a start and end year
schedule_data = nba_scraper.scrape_all_schedule_data(start_year=2020, end_year=2021)

Scrape Game Data

# Scrapes Game Data for games played within a schedule

## First: Scrape for schedule
schedule_data = nba_scraper.scrape_schedule_data(year='2023', month='january')

## Second: use return DataFrame as input to scrape_game_data method
game_data = nba_scraper.scrape_game_data(schedule_df=schedule_data)

License

See the LICENSE file for details.