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# URL for the Washington Wizards Basketball Reference page | |
wiz_url = (f'https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/WAS/2021.html') | |
# The requests library can send a GET request to the wiz_url | |
wiz_res = requests.get(wiz_url) | |
# BeautifulSoup library parses the content of an HTML document, in this case wiz_res | |
wiz_soup = BeautifulSoup(wiz_res.content, 'lxml') | |
# BeautifulSoup's .find() method searches for a tag and specified attributes, | |
# returning the first match | |
wiz_per_game = wiz_soup.find(name = 'table', attrs = {'id' : 'per_game'}) | |
# Making a list of dictionaries to then convert into a pd.DataFrame | |
wiz_info = [] | |
for row in wiz_per_game.find_all('tr')[1:]: # Excluding the first 'tr', since that's the table's title head | |
player = {} | |
player['Name'] = row.find('a').text.strip() | |
player['Age'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'age'}).text | |
player['Min PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'mp_per_g'}).text | |
player['Field Goal %'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'fg_pct'}).text | |
player['Rebounds PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'trb_per_g'}).text | |
player['Assists PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'ast_per_g'}).text | |
player['Steals PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'stl_per_g'}).text | |
player['Blocks PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'blk_per_g'}).text | |
player['Turnovers PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'tov_per_g'}).text | |
player['Points PG'] = row.find('td', {'data-stat' : 'pts_per_g'}).text | |
player_url = ('https://www.basketball-reference.com/' + row.find('a').attrs['href']) | |
player_rest = requests.get(player_url) | |
player_soup = BeautifulSoup(player_rest.content, 'lxml') | |
player_info = player_soup.find(name = 'div', attrs = {'itemtype' : 'https://schema.org/Person'}) | |
player_links= [] | |
for link in player_info.find_all('a'): | |
player_links.append(link.get('href')) | |
if 'twitter' in player_links[1]: | |
player['Twitter Handle'] = player_links[1].replace('https://twitter.com/', '') | |
else: | |
player['Twitter Handle'] = 'Not Listed' | |
s = str(player_info.find_all('p')) | |
weight = re.search('\"weight\">(.*)lb</span>', s) | |
position = re.search('Position:\n </strong>\n (.*)\n\n', s) | |
height = re.search('\"height\">(.*)</span>,\xa0<span itemprop="weight', s) | |
player['Height'] = height.group(1).strip() | |
player['Weight (Lbs)'] = weight.group(1).strip() | |
player['Position'] = position.group(1).strip() | |
wiz_info.append(player) | |
pd.DataFrame(wiz_info) |
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