eliteprospect_scraper

Package to scrape hockey data from eliteprospect.
Please only use collected data for personal use - there are real APIs for professional usage of eliteprospects data.

Getting started

Package can be installed with pip
pip install eliteprospect_scraper

In python, import module with
import eliteprospect.eliteprospect_scraper as ep

See description of functions in package with
help(ep)

Functions can be used together and input and output is linked.

Functions

Description of functions contained in package. Ordered in

getPlayers(league, year)

Get all players for specific year and league; returns dataframe.

• League: valid league from eliteprospects
• year: valid combination of year in format 2015-16, 2016-17 etc.

Example:
getPlayers('shl', '2015-16')

getPlayerMetadata(dfplayers)

Create dataframe with metadata by players.
Input is dataframe created with function getPlayers

getPlayerStats(playerlinks)

Create dataframe with all statistics from playerpages.
Takes series of playerlinks as input. Playerlinks are also included in return output from getPlayerMetadata

ep.getPlayerStats(["https://eliteprospects.com/player/2050/mattias-ritola"])

dataprep_players(playerstats, league_mapping, players):

help(ep) dataprep_players(playerstats, league_mapping, players) Takes series of playerlinks to eliteprospect-profiles, Return dataframe with stats by player and season

How to use

See this notebook for examples of how to use the package, and in what order you can run the functions.