Transfermarkt Crawler

Overview

Crawler for the website transfermarkt.com. The site is a huge database with soccer info as
leagues, teams and players.

Quick Start

https://www.globo.com/
This WebCrawler can work in two different way:
	- You can only retrieve using a singular module:
		* Teams
		* Players
		* Leagues

	- You can also retrieve by inputing a league, which will gather Teams and Players. 

	- You can define the seasons that will be crawled.

- To execute the code you can run python main.py or import the modules for your code.

- In case you does not have a webdriver in your computer, here some tutorials of how install:
	Chorme: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started
	Firefox: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver

Modeled Dataset

Three diffenrent dataset can be modeled from the Transfermarkt Web Crawler.
Next, we present each one these datasets.

Teams

In this dataset we have teams information, the fields are:

	Team Name, ID, Season, Manager, Manager Id, Transfer Income,
	Transfer Departures, Title, Squad ID

Players

In this dataset we have players information, the fields are:

	Player Name, Full Name, ID, Birth Date, Birth Place, Age, Height, Nationality, 
	Position, Foot, Agent, Joined, Contract Lenght, Outfiter

Transfers

In this dataset we have transfers information, the fields are:

	Player ID, Season, Fee, Market Value, Team A, Team B, ID Team A, ID Team B

Managers

In this dataset we have managers information, the fields are:

	Manager Name, Manager ID, Birth Date, Birth Place, Nationality, Avg. term,
	Coaching License, Preferred Formation, Titles, History

Managers History

In this dataset we have managers history, the fields are:

	Team, ID, Appointed, Contract, Position, Number of Matches, Points Per Match

License

You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment we highly
appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s)
you are using. To get our address send a e-mail to [email protected]

Used this Crawler in your paper and want to refer ?

@misc{lucasgsfelix,
  author = {Félix, Lucas},
  title = {Transfermarkt Crawler},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/lucasgsfelix/Transfermarkt-Crawler}}
}