scrape_scoreboard_ids: Scrapes the game ids from ESPN's soccer scoreboard

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/scrape_game_ids.R

Description

Scrapes the game ids from ESPN's soccer scoreboard

Usage

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scrape_scoreboard_ids(scoreboard_name = "show all leagues",
  game_date = Sys.Date())

Arguments

scoreboard_name

Name of league or tournament (must be in the league_url_data table) to access the scoreboard for in order to obtain the game ids (default is "show all leagues").

game_date

Date to find scoreboard of game ids for, using the format of "YYYY-MM-DD" (default is the current date).

Value

Data frame of game ids and columns for each team from the given league/tournament and date's soccer scoreboard.

Examples

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# Scrape today's game ids for all leagues:
today_game_ids <- scrape_scoreboard_ids()
# Scrape world cup games from June 28th, 2018:
wc_game_ids <- scrape_scoreboard_ids("fifa world cup", "2018-06-18")

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