ahmedbatty/ESPNCricInfo-BallByBall

Get ESPN CricInfo Ball by Ball data for each match from its page

ESPNCricInfo BallByBall Data Scraper

This small Python program can be used to scrape ball by ball data of a cricket match from ESPNCricInfo and save it as csv or json.

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• BeautifulSoup
• Downloaded ESPNCricInfo webpage containing the ball by ball data of a specific cricket match

How to Use This Code

• Download the ESPNCricInfo webpage containing the ball by ball data of a specific cricket match.
• Place the folder next to the Python script.
• Edit the script to include and open the respective html file.
• In the terminal, run: python3 ball_by_ball.py

Future Work

• Allow command line arguments rather than changing the code everytime for giving path to an html page.
• Scrape data from the webpage without downloading the webpage. (need to check possibility)
• Add functionality to remove HTML tags and garbage text from the commentary.
• (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/better-web-scraping-in-python-with-selenium-beautiful-soup-and-pandas-d6390592e251)