For personal use, I need simple data about games in the football league of my hometown. I made Python project, which can scrape data from https://fotbalunas.cz and create JSON file with data about each game in the league. It contains dates, results, lineups, subs, goals, and cards. Some pieces of information are maybe not necessary or the structure of JSON file can be improved, but I just need the data for future use and I have no prior experience with data-analyze or data mining.

On https://fotbalunas.cz find your league and click on it. The number of the league is the last path of the URL. For example: https://fotbalunas.cz/soutez/438/ means the number of this league is 438.

Run the file scraper.py

• with arguments python3 scraper.py [-l number]

• or without and insert the league number later as terminal ask you for input python3 scraper.py

After successful download, a new folder in your directory is created. Inside are two JSON files. One with basic info, second with all scraped games.

This version of the program downloads only previous matches. The upcoming games and matches with the unclear result are skipped. If you start the program with the same league number, it starts scraping all over and all JSON files for the league will be overwritten. In future updates, I plan to scrap only not saved games and UPDATE JSON, not overwrite all in JSON file.

I created this project for my home league, where is working for my needs perfectly. I tested it for another 10 leagues and fixed all the bugs I found.

In some lower leagues can happened, that line ups are missing or there is a mistake in the lineup. In such a case I decided to inform user about the mistake and download all other info axcept the lineup of the team.

If you find a league with Uknown mistake, or league which cause the program to qiut please let me know and I will try to fix it.