/Scraperball

A webscrapper built to scrape football match details.

Primary LanguagePython

Scraperball

A webscrapper built to scrape football match details.

Requirements

  • Python 3.9 or above
  • Mozilla firefox (Will need some configuration before using a different browser such as Chrome)
  • Gecko Driver (comes with the script, should also be in the same folder as the main script)
  • MyFile-decrypted.xlsx

External Python Libraries used

  • Selenium
  • Pandas
  • Openpyxl

How to Run

  • open up a terminal
  • type "pip install selenium pandas openpyxl" and press Enter
  • make sure the "MyFile-decrypted.xlsx" Excel file is in the same folder as the main script
  • type "python main.py" or "python3 main.py" depending on how python is stored in your PATH

Results

  • A folder called "output" should be created in the same directory if it doesn't already exist
  • An excel file saved as the current date and time should be added to the output folder