Scrapes and stores MLSSoccer.com statistics.

In order to install clone this repo, and run:

python setup.py install

Then add mls_api to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in your Django project. Then just run:

python manage.py migrate mls_api

to add the necessary tables to your database.

This app includes a management command that will parse stats from the MLSSoccer.com website. There are a couple methods of use:

python manage.py scrape_game

This method of running the scraper will parse all of the stats from the MLS Results Map for the current year. Optionally you can run with a year argument:

python manage.py scrape_game --year=2011

If a Result Map doesn't exist for the given year however, this will fail. MLS currently only tracks back to 2011.

If the script encounters a game with a statistics link that already exists it will skip that link. You can pass the option of forcing to the script to disable this:

python manage.py scrape_game --force

Finally, you can give the script a specific stats link for it to parse:

python manage.py scrape_game https://www.example.com/stats