scrape_new_ids: Scrape new ids for MLB and Yahoo

In almartin82/mlbids: Tools for standardizing MLB player metadata

Description

a utility function that looks for newly added players from one of the fantasy providers

Usage

scrape_new_ids(id_type = "mlb", exclude_known = TRUE, verbose = TRUE,
  expand_range = 500, backtrack_range = -500)

Arguments

id_type	c('mlb', 'yahoo')
exclude_known	should we ignore the players who have already have records? default is TRUE.
verbose	output current player name to the console. default is TRUE
expand_range	at the close, we'll expand the number of ids to check by some fixed number, to make sure that we are looking high enough to get new ones. default is 200.

Value

writes data to data-raw/whatever.csv. returns 'OK' if function completes

almartin82/mlbids documentation built on May 10, 2019, 9:54 a.m.