Player nationality missing?

[mkotov13]

Hi,

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the dataset is missing players' nationality. Is there any way that can be added?

Thanks!

[kylemh]

It's totally dependent on @hugomathien 's dataset.

It looks like he gets player data from sofifa.com which declares a player's nationality via a poorly-named image (aka something that's tough to scrape in a clean way).

[ChaiBapchya]

Since these are actualy players, one way would be to crawl Wikipedia or any trusted site with details of Football players and store their nationality information. I can do that

1. Decide the trusted site
2. Crawl the site - retrieve - Player Name - Nationallity
3. Update the database with missing nationality

[mkotov13]

@ChaiBapchya love the idea! One suggestion for a website to scrape instead of Wikipedia is Futhead.com, since their information is structured better, so it will be easier to scrape :)

[ChaiBapchya]

Alright. I will work on this and get back to you with the scrape.