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Fetching, parsing and cleaning Pakistan England Test data from Cricinfo
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| """ | |
| This will grab the data from CricInfo Site about TestMatch Played by Pakistan against England from 1954-till now | |
| """ | |
| import requests | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| url = 'http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/team/7.html?class=1;opposition=1;template=results;type=team;view=results' | |
| r = requests.get(url) | |
| html = r.text | |
| #create soup object | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml') | |
| recs = soup.select('tbody > .data1') | |
| file = open('data_england_test.csv', "w") | |
| for i in range(2,len(recs)): | |
| single = recs[i].findAll('td') | |
| file.write(single[0].text + ','+single[1].text+ ','+single[2].text+ ','+single[3].text+ ','+ single[4].text+ ','+single[6].text+ ','+ single[7].text+'\n') | |
| file.close() |
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I think at line 18, the index you are looking for is single[5] and not single[4] as it is empty.