Basketball-Reference Webcrawler

Scrapy-based webcrawler which collects all data for a specific NBA season from basketball-reference.com.

Prerequisites

Requires the scrapy and pandas python packages to be installed.

Usage

The webcrawler can be started from the project directory using the command

scrapy crawl basketball-reference -a season=2020

where the season for which data should be collected is given by the season argument (default is current season).