pl_scraper

Web scraper that scrapes all sorts of data from the Premier League website

Requirements

• Python 3.7.3 or higher
• requests 2.21.0 or higher

Quickstart guide

0. Install the requests module. This is commonly done by running pip3 install requests in your terminal.
1. Download the pl_scraper.py script and place it in the same directory as your program.
2. At the top of your program, type import pl_scraper as pl.
3. Get Premier League information to your heart's desire! (try running pl.matchweek() for all the details about the current matchweek!)

Configuration

Configurable setting can be found in the first couple of lines of the script. They are mainly for developer purposes. Do not change them unless you know what you are doing!

Basic functions

teams()

Returns all the teams in the current season of the Premier League

matchweek()

Returns the matchweek number and all the matches in the current matchweek in a list

fixture(id)

Returns information about the given match

player(id)

Returns information about the given player

Legal notice

This program uses data from the Premier League website.

This program is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Premier League.

The Premier League retains all rights to the data scraped by this program.