R: Old ACB player game finder data

scraping_games_acb_old {BAwiR}

R Documentation

Old ACB player game finder data

Description

This function allowed us to get all the player game finder data for all the desired ACB seasons available from: https://www.acb.com. It was an old version that worked before the internal structure of the ACB website changed. The updated function is now scraping_games_acb.

Usage

scraping_games_acb_old(type_league, nums, year, verbose = TRUE, 
                       accents = FALSE, r_user = "guillermo.vinue@uv.es")

Arguments

`type_league`	String. If `competition` is ACB, to scrape ACB league games ("ACB"), Copa del Rey games ("CREY") or Supercopa games ("SCOPA").
`nums`	Numbers corresponding to the website to scrape.
`year`	Season, e.g. 2017-2018.
`verbose`	Should R report information on progress? Default TRUE.
`accents`	Should we keep the Spanish accents? The recommended option is to remove them, so default FALSE.
`r_user`	Email to identify the user when doing web scraping. This is a polite way to do web scraping and to certify that the user is working as transparently as possible with a research purpose.

Details

The official website of the Spanish basketball league ACB used to present the statistics of each game in a php website, such as: https://www.acb.com/fichas/LACB62090.php.

In some cases, https://www.acb.com/fichas/LACB60315.php didn't exist, so for these cases is where we can use the httr package.

Value

A data frame with the player game finder data.

Note

In addition to use the email address to stay identifiable, the function also contains two headers regarding the R platform and version used.

Furthermore, even though in the robots.txt file at https://www.acb.com/robots.txt, there is no information about scraping limitations and all robots are allowed to have complete access, the function also includes the command Sys.sleep(2) to pause between requests for 2 seconds. In this way, we don't bother the server with multiple requests and we do carry out a friendly scraping.

Author(s)

Guillermo Vinue

Examples

## Not run: 
# Not needed to scrape every time the package is checked, built and installed.
df1 <- scraping_games_acb_old(type_league = "ACB", nums = 62001:62002, year = "2017-2018",
                              verbose = TRUE, accents = FALSE, 
                              r_user = "guillermo.vinue@uv.es")

## End(Not run)

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