sofifa.com

sfscrape

This package uses the rvest (R) package for web scraping to automatically collect scores from the FIFA video game series, with data taken from https://sofifa.com. This package is an updated version of the now deprecated package https://github.com/valentinumbach/SoFIFA.

Installation

To install the package, run. - If you don't have devtools installed, run.

install.packages("devtools")

Then run.

devtools::install_github("https://github.com/fpl-analytics/sfscrape")
library(sfscrape)

Using

The package contains various functions for pulling data from https://sofifa.com. The pipeline goes as follows: 1. Get fifa games listed on sofifa.com. fifa_games <- sfscrape::get_game_codes() 2. Get the dates of updates. dates <- get_dates(fifa_games) 3. Get the leagues for a given date. get_leagues(220006) 4. Get all teams for a given league & date. teams <- get_teams(13, 220006) 5. Get players in a given team and date players <- get_players("/team/9/liverpool/") 6. Get FIFA data for a given player and date player_data <- get_player_data("https://sofifa.com/player/209331/mohamed-salah/220006/"