https://github.com/multimeric/afltablesscraper

A python scraper for the AFL Tables website
https://github.com/multimeric/afltablesscraper

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A python scraper for the AFL Tables website

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/multimeric/afltablesscraper
• Owner: multimeric
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-04-29T12:39:37.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-12T11:31:28.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-02T14:53:55.435Z (12 months ago)
• Topics: data-science, scraper
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://multimeric.github.io/AflTablesScraper
• Size: 365 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
AFL Tables Scraper

==================

The AFL Tables Scraper is a Python package and command-line executable that downloads Australian Football League (AFL)

match data from the fantastic database `AFL Tables `_, and outputs it in

a structured, machine-readable form.

Full documentation available on `Github Pages `_

Installation

------------

Note that this module requires python 3.5 and above

Install using:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip install afl_tables

Python Usage

------------

The AFL Tables module can be used to scrape matches as follows:

.. code-block:: python

    from afl_tables import MatchScraper

    # Make a scraper for a particular year (2015)

    rounds = MatchScraper.scrape(2015)

See the docs on `Round `_ for more information on how to use this object

CLI Usage

---------

The AFL Tables module also creates a command-line script called ``afltables``, which can be used to scrape data outside

of a python script. Usage is as follows

.. code-block:: none

    usage: Scrapes the AFL Tables website and returns JSON data representing the matches

       [-h] year

    positional arguments:

      year        The year to scrape

    optional arguments:

      -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Changelog

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0.0.2

~~~~~

* Fix for missing fields in the attendees/date/venue part of the table, for example in 2020

* Added some tests for the package

0.0.1

~~~~~

* Initial release