bobbysebolao / game-set-scrape

A collection of Python scripts for scraping Wikipedia for information about the winners of every tennis Grand Slam since 1877.

Game Set Scrape

This is a Python web scraper. It parses selected Wikipedia pages for info about Wimbledon tennis Grand Slam tournament winners from 1884-2016. It gathers the following data: Tournament Year, Date of Final, Name of Winner. It saves the results to an empty .xlsx Excel spreadsheet.

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Usage

The script saves the data to an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx file). You should create an empty spreadsheet and save it to a location on your computer's hard drive. Be sure to update the script to reference the correct file name and location in the wb variable:

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook(os.path.expanduser("~/all_womens_tennis_grand_slam_winners.xlsx"))

Requirements

Beautiful Soup 4 (https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/)
re (https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html)
os (https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html)
openpyxl (https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)