https://github.com/mbjoseph/bbr

R package to scrape data from basketball-reference.com
https://github.com/mbjoseph/bbr

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R package to scrape data from basketball-reference.com

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mbjoseph/bbr
• Owner: mbjoseph
• Created: 2016-12-03T22:25:10.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-01T01:30:43.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-11T17:06:03.358Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: basketball, basketball-reference, sports, sports-data
• Language: R
• Size: 19.5 KB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd

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# bbr: basketball-reference data in R

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The bbr package is designed to quickly fetch tidy data from www.basketball-reference.com. 

This package is actively under development and the interface will change as new features are added.

## Installation

```{r, eval = FALSE}

devtools::install_github("mbjoseph/bbr")

```

## Example usage

The `get_season` function retrieves season summary data for one season. 

```{r, echo = TRUE}

library(bbr)

ninetyone <- get_season(1991)

str(ninetyone)

```

The `get_players` function gets player data for individuals by last initial.

```{r, echo = TRUE}

a_data <- get_players("A")

str(a_data)

```

The `get_player_data` function returns data for each season that a player 

played. As an argument, this function takes a slug for the player you're 

interested in. This can be found using the `get_players()` function, and is 

part of the URL to the data of a player, e.g., if the URL is 

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/abdelal01.html then the slug is 

abdelal01.

```{r, echo = TRUE}

abdelnaby_d <- get_player_data('abdelal01')

str(abdelnaby_d)

```