nba_scraper: Scrape NBA statistics data from ESPN into CSV file

In kfoofw/test_githubactions: Scrape data from ESPN NBA and show summary statistics/visualisations

Description

Scrape the tabular data from ESPN NBA website using RSelenium and returns a tibble of the data. Users can specify the seaason year and season type. User should also specify the port for Selenium driver. By default, the function will not write to csv until a string input for "csv_path" is given.

Usage

nba_scraper(
  season_year = 2018,
  season_type = "regular",
  port = 4445L,
  csv_path = NULL
)

Arguments

season_year	int from 2001 to 2019 (upper limit based on latest year)
season_type	string. Either "regular" or "postseason"
port	int with L suffix. Must not be negative.
csv_path	string for csv file. Defaults to NULL. If specified, must end with ".csv".

Value

A tibble of scraped ESPN NBA data

Examples

# Scrape regular season 2018/19 without saving to a csv file
nba_2018 <- nba_scraper(2018, season_type = "regular", port=4445L)


# Scrape playoffs season 2017/18 while saving to a local csv file.
nba_2017 <- nba_scraper(2017, season_type = "postseason",
                        port=4445L,
                        csv_path = "nba_2017_playoffs.csv")

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