Rycieos / ncaa-basketball-scraper

API and GUI applications to get NCAA basketball stats from ESPN and NCAA

ncaa-basketball-scraper

API and GUI applications to get NCAA basketball stats from ESPN and NCAA.

This program downloads stats for games or players from ESPN.com, and gathers them into a CSV file.

Included is a Tkinter GUI program and the Python source code. You can use the command line version or develop it by following these steps:

Windows setup

1. Install Python: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Install at least version 3.10. You must check the options for tkinter as well as "update Path".

2. Create a virtual environment. Open a PowerShell window, navigate to this directory, and run python3 -m venv venv.

3. Activate the virtual environment: .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

4. Install the required dependencies: pip install -e .

Development

1. Hack away. To run the command line version, simply run python3 matchup.py, python3 player.py, or python3 play_by_play.py.

2. To run the GUI version, run python3 matchup_gui.py, python3 player_gui.py, or python3 play_by_play_gui.py.

3. To build the EXE version, run these commands:

• For the matchup scraper: pyinstaller ncaa_basketball/matchup_gui.py --paths=./ncaa_basketball --hidden-import babel.numbers --onefile --windowed

• For the player scraper: pyinstaller ncaa_basketball/player_gui.py --paths=./ncaa_basketball --onefile --windowed

• For the play by play scraper: pyinstaller ncaa_basketball/play_by_play_gui.py --paths=./ncaa_basketball --hidden-import babel.numbers ---onefile --windowed