Scrap Football data table of previous matches from the official football data websites (fbref...)

Football site webiste table scrap

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+#LA LIGA SQUAD STATS TABLE#
+
+
+import requests
+import pandas as pd
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+# Define the URL of the webpage you want to scrape
+url = "https://fbref.com/en/squads/8d6fd021/Alaves-Stats"
+
+# Send an HTTP GET request to the URL
+response = requests.get(url)
+
+# Check if the request was successful
+if response.status_code == 200:
+ # Parse the HTML content of the page
+ soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,'html.parser')
+ squad_stats_table = soup.select('table.stats_table')[2]
+
+ if squad_stats_table:
+ # Extract data directly from the table
+ data = []
+ for row in squad_stats_table.find_all('tr')[1:]:
+ row_data = [cell.get_text(strip=True) for cell in row.find_all(['td', 'th'])]
+ data.append(row_data)
+
+ # Define the column names (headers)
+ headers = data[0]
+ # Create a pandas DataFrame
+ df = pd.DataFrame(data[1:], columns=headers)
+
+ # Save the DataFrame to an Excel file
+ excel_file = "Team Score .xlsx"
+ df.to_excel(excel_file, index=False)
+
+ print(f"Data has been scraped and saved to {excel_file}")
+ else:
+ print("Squad stats table not found on the page.")
+else:
+ print("Failed to retrieve the webpage")