squashinformr

Overview

squashinformr allows users to easily scrape SquashInfo for data on the Professional Squash Association World Tour and other squash tournaments. The functions within this package scrape, parse, and clean data associated with players, tournaments, and rankings.

Installation

Install squashinformr via CRAN:

install.packages("squashinformr")

Install the development version of squashinformr from this GitHub repository via:

if (!require("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")

remotes::install_github("HaydenMacDonald/squashinformr")

Usage

There are three major families of scraping functions in squashinformr:

Player functions for scraping player profile data
- get_players()
- get_player_recent_results()
- get_player_recent_matches()
- get_player_recent_games()
- get_matchup()
Tournament functions for scraping tournament results data
- get_tournaments()
- get_tournament_players()
- get_tournament_matches()
- get_tournament_games()
Ranking function for scraping current and historical rankings tables
- get_rankings()

Examples

`get_player_recent_matches()`

This function returns a player’s recent matches.

library(squashinformr)

## Get Mohamed Elshorbagy's most recent match data
get_player_recent_matches(player = "Mohamed Elshorbagy", category = "mens")
#> Scraping http://www.squashinfo.com/rankings/men/1
#> Scraping Mohamed Elshorbagy's recent results
#> # A tibble: 10 x 12
#>     rank player opponent result games_won games_lost match_time round date      
#>    <int> <chr>  <chr>    <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl> <chr> <date>    
#>  1     2 Moham~ Mostafa~ L             NA         NA         NA F     2021-02-01
#>  2     2 Moham~ Lucas S~ W              3          2         NA SF    2021-02-01
#>  3     2 Moham~ Dimitri~ W              3          1         NA QF    2021-02-01
#>  4     2 Moham~ Youssef~ L              2          3         65 R3    2020-11-01
#>  5     2 Moham~ George ~ W              3          1         61 R2    2020-11-01
#>  6     2 Moham~ Karim A~ W              3          1         73 F     2020-09-01
#>  7     2 Moham~ Paul Co~ W              3          2         84 SF    2020-09-01
#>  8     2 Moham~ Joel Ma~ W              3          1         69 QF    2020-09-01
#>  9     2 Moham~ James W~ W              3          0         36 R2    2020-09-01
#> 10     2 Moham~ Raphael~ W              3          0         34 R1    2020-09-01
#> # ... with 3 more variables: event <chr>, country <chr>, psa <chr>

`get_tournament_games()`

This function returns a tournament’s game results data.

## Return game data for 2020's Black Ball Open.
get_tournament_games("Black Ball Open", year = 2020, world_tour = TRUE)
#> Scraping http://www.squashinfo.com/results?start=1
#> Scraping http://www.squashinfo.com/results?start=2
#> Scraping http://www.squashinfo.com/results?start=3
#> Scraping http://www.squashinfo.com/events/8425-mens-black-ball-open-2020
#> # A tibble: 119 x 15
#>    tournament_name category tournament_date player_1 player_2 player_1_seed
#>    <chr>           <chr>    <date>          <chr>    <chr>            <dbl>
#>  1 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Ali Far~             9
#>  2 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Ali Far~             9
#>  3 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Ali Far~             9
#>  4 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Ali Far~             9
#>  5 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Ali Far~             9
#>  6 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Ali Far~ Mostafa~             1
#>  7 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Ali Far~ Mostafa~             1
#>  8 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Ali Far~ Mostafa~             1
#>  9 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Tarek M~             9
#> 10 CIB Black Ball~ Men's    2020-12-18      Fares D~ Tarek M~             9
#> # ... with 109 more rows, and 9 more variables: player_2_seed <dbl>,
#> #   player_1_nationality <chr>, player_2_nationality <chr>, round <ord>,
#> #   match <int>, game <int>, player_1_score <dbl>, player_2_score <dbl>,
#> #   game_winner <chr>

`get_rankings()`

This function returns data from the most recent PSA rankings tables.

library(dplyr)

## Get the top 5 players in both men's and women's singles competitions
get_rankings(top = 5, category = "both") %>%
    arrange(category, rank)
#> # A tibble: 10 x 7
#>     rank previous_rank name        highest_world_ra~ hwr_date   country category
#>    <int>         <int> <chr>                   <int> <date>     <chr>   <chr>   
#>  1     1             1 Ali Farag                   1 2019-03-01 EGY     mens    
#>  2     2             2 Mohamed El~                 1 2014-11-01 EGY     mens    
#>  3     3             3 Tarek Momen                 3 2019-02-01 EGY     mens    
#>  4     4             4 Paul Coll                   4 2020-12-01 NZL     mens    
#>  5     5             5 Karim Abde~                 1 2017-05-01 EGY     mens    
#>  6     1             1 Nour El Sh~                 1 2016-05-01 EGY     womens  
#>  7     2             2 Nouran Goh~                 1 2020-07-01 EGY     womens  
#>  8     3             3 Camille Se~                 2 2017-02-01 FRA     womens  
#>  9     4             4 Nour El Ta~                 3 2018-02-01 EGY     womens  
#> 10     5             5 Hania El H~                 5 2020-11-01 EGY     womens

`get_matchup()`

This function returns recent head-to-head matchup stats between two players. Stats returned include:

each player’s rank and name
total matches played
the number of matches won
the match results spread (relative to player 1)
the average match time
the number of games played
the number of games won
average point advantage in a won game
the average point difference in final scores
the number of tie-break wins
and the percentage of games that go to a tie-breaker.

## Get tidy matchup stats for Paul Coll vs Fares Dessouky
get_matchup("Paul Coll", "Fares Dessouky", category = "mens", tidy = FALSE)
#> # A tibble: 23 x 2
#>    metric               value         
#>    <chr>                <chr>         
#>  1 player_1_rank        4             
#>  2 player_1             Paul Coll     
#>  3 player_2_rank        8             
#>  4 player_2             Fares Dessouky
#>  5 matches_played       2             
#>  6 player_1_matches_won 2             
#>  7 player_2_matches_won 0             
#>  8 matches_3_2          0             
#>  9 matches_3_1          1             
#> 10 matches_3_0          1             
#> # ... with 13 more rows

Help

Submit issues here on GitHub.

If you are interested in extending the functionality of this package, fork this repository, make your changes and submit them as a pull request. The squashinformr project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to its terms.

Disclaimer

SquashInfo is a valuable resource for the international squash community. By creating and sharing this package, I do not intend to compete with SquashInfo or any of its stakeholders. The squashinformr package was created to allow individuals to access data from SquashInfo in an efficient and responsible way, using polite principles. Following polite principles incurs mandatory delays on the scraping process set by SquashInfo. This prevents the use of this package from incurring unnecessary harm to SquashInfo servers via overwhelming requests. Therefore, it is important that users are patient when using this package. SquashInfo currently offers full access to their data and extra features through a premium membership. Please consider signing up and subscribing to SquashInfo to support their work.

Author

This package was authored by Hayden MacDonald. Feel free to email me at hmd[at]needleinthehay.ca.

License

The squashinformr package is released under a GPL-3 license.