epl team scrap

Author: Shrikant Jituri

epl_team.py

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+import requests
+from lxml import html
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+
+ # Pre Stuff
+headers = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36'}
+teams = ['Manchester City', 'Manchester United', 'Tottenham Hotspur', 'Chelsea', 'Arsenal', 'Watford', 'Newcastle United', 'Burnley', 'Liverpool', 'Southampton', 'Huddersfield Town', 'Brighton and Hove Albion', 'West Bromwich Albion', 'Leicester City', 'Swansea City', 'West Ham United', 'Stoke City', 'Everton', 'Bournemouth', 'Crystal Palace']
+teams.sort()
+url = 'https://www.premierleague.com/tables'
+concat_url = 'https://www.premierleague.com/'
+
+
+# Get parsed page using lxml
+def get_parsed_page(url):
+	response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)
+	parsed_page = html.fromstring(response.content)
+	return parsed_page
+
+
+# Main 
+print(teams)
+team = raw_input('Enter Team Name from above list: ')
+parsed_page = get_parsed_page(url)
+
+# Getting required details
+a_teams = parsed_page.xpath('//tbody[@class="tableBodyContainer"]//td[@class="team"]/a/span[@class="long"]/text()')
+points = parsed_page.xpath('//tbody[@class="tableBodyContainer"]//td[@class="points"]/text()')
+next_match_link = parsed_page.xpath('//tbody[@class="tableBodyContainer"]//td[@class="nextMatchCol hideMed"]//a/@href')
+
+ref = defaultdict(list)
+
+for i, (a,b,c) in enumerate(zip(a_teams, points, next_match_link)):
+	ref[a] = [i+1, a, b, concat_url + c]
+
+print("Current Position: "+str(ref[team][0]))
+print("Total Points: "+str(ref[team][2]))
+print("Next Match: "+ref[team][3])