/transfermarkt

Scrapping of Historical Market Values (MV) of football players from www.transfermarkt.com using Scrapy.

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transfermarkt

Scrapping of Historical Market Values (MV) of football players from www.transfermarkt.com using Scrapy. The MVs are collected for each player in the First Tear competitions of a given continent.

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Extracts the historical market values for a given continent

Arguments:

  1. continent: the selected continent

Output:

A Python dictionary:

{ player : {name, id, current_team}, market_value : {value, team, date} }

with a set of players info:

  1. name: player's name on transfermarkt
  2. id: transfermarkt's unique id number for each player
  3. current_team: team player was registered for on the scrapping date

along with the historical market values (list oriented):

  1. value: the players value in euros (ex. 10000000 = 10M€)
  2. team: the team the player was registered for on the day of the valuation
  3. date: the valuation date ('yyyy-mm-dd')