Parsing Baseball Stats

[Paul McGuire]

<ankitdesai at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153756130.949228.182160 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> I would like to parse a couple of tables within an individual player's
> SHTML page. For example, I would like to get the "Actual Pitching
> Statistics" and the "Translated Pitching Statistics" portions of Babe
> Ruth page (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/ruthba01.shtml) and
> store that info in a CSV file.
>
> Also, I would like to do this for numerous players whose IDs I have
> stored in a text file (e.g.: cobbty01, ruthba01, speaktr01, etc.).
> These IDs should change the URL to get the corresponding player's
> stats. Is this doable and if yes, how? I have only recently finished
> learning Python (used the book: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:
> Learning with Python). Thanks for your help...
>
Pyparsing and BeautifulSoup are both useful options to look into.

Also, take care not to run afoul of the terms of service for this site
(included below).  A strict interpretation of them probably prohibits what
you intend to do.

-- Paul


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