ESPNCricInfo BallByBall Data Scraper

This small Python program can be used to scrape ball by ball data of a cricket match from ESPNCricInfo and save it as csv or json.

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• BeautifulSoup
• Downloaded ESPNCricInfo webpage containing the ball by ball data of a specific cricket match

How to Use This Code

• Download the ESPNCricInfo webpage containing the ball by ball data of a specific cricket match.
• Place the folder next to the Python script.
• Edit the script to include and open the respective html file.
• In the terminal, run: python3 ball_by_ball.py

Future Work

• Allow command line arguments rather than changing the code everytime for giving path to an html page.
• Scrape data from the webpage without downloading the webpage. (need to check possibility)
• Add functionality to remove HTML tags and garbage text from the commentary.
• (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/better-web-scraping-in-python-with-selenium-beautiful-soup-and-pandas-d6390592e251)