MLS Statistics Scraper

Simple web scraper built to crawl through Major League Soccer statistics available from mlssoccer.com and write to text files for analysis.

Usage

Copy mlsstatsscraper.py to preferred directory and update OUTPUT_DIR parameter to the location you want the text files written.

To run: python mlsstatsscraper.py

Dependencies

• requests
• BeautifulSoup
• pandas

Future Plans

• Allow user to specify initialized values.
• Scrape player profiles for features like age, birthplace, nationality, etc.