scrape_pbp: Scrape NHL RTSS (play-by-play) data from nhl.com

In EFastner/icescrapR: A package for scraping and summarizing PbP Data from NHL.com

Description

Scrape NHL RTSS (play-by-play) data from nhl.com

Usage

scrape_pbp(
  games,
  scrape_type = "full",
  live_scrape = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  sleep = 0
)

Arguments

games	a vector containing a list of game_ids to scrape
scrape_type	default is "full", determines what data to return. See details for more info
live_scrape	default is FALSE, adjusts incorrect player and goalie shifts if TRUE (used for scraping games in progress)
verbose	default is TRUE, prints system time of each scrape
sleep	default is 0, time (in seconds) to wait between scraping games

Details

event_summary values

• full - returns all data

• event_summary - returns only event summary, rosters, and scratches

• rosters - returns only rosters and scratches

resulting data sets returned

• game_info_dir - game information data

• pbp_base - main play-by-play data

• pbp_extras - extra play-by-play data

• player_shifts - full player shifts data

• player_periods - player TOI sums per period (from the shifts source)

• roster_df - roster data

• scratches_df - scratches data

• events_summary_df - event summary data (box score stats, etc.)

• report - report showing number of rows and time to scrape game

Author(s)

Evolving Hockey (https://evolving-hockey.com/)

EFastner/icescrapR documentation built on Jan. 15, 2022, 1:11 p.m.