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Stats web scraper of Pro Football Reference

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pro-football-reference-web-scraper

Web scraper to retrieve player and team data from Pro Football Reference.

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Overview

pro-football-reference-web-scraper is a Python library that helps developers take advantage of the plethora of free data provided by Pro Football Reference. It is intended primarily to help fantasy sports players and sports bettors gain an edge in their NFL sports gaming endeavors. However, it can be used for any project that requires team- and player-specific data.

Installation

To install, run the following:

pip install pro-football-reference-web-scraper

Usage

Player Game Logs

The following code will retrieve and print Josh Allen's game log during the 2022 season as a pandas DataFrame.

player: a player's full name, as it appears on Pro Football Reference
position: 'QB', 'RB', 'TE', or 'WR'
season: the season you are looking for (int)

from pro_football_reference_web_scraper import player_game_log as p

game_log = p.get_player_game_log(player = 'Josh Allen', position = 'QB', season = 2022)
print(game_log)

Team Game Logs

The following code will retrieve and print the Kansas City Chiefs' game log during the 1995 season as a pandas DataFrame.

team: a team's full name (city and mascot), as it appears on Pro Football Reference
season: the season you are looking for (int)

from pro_football_reference_web_scraper import team_game_log as t

game_log = t.get_team_game_log(team = 'Kansas City Chiefs', season = 1995)
print(game_log)

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