FMScraper

FMScraper is a web scraping tool that uses requests for HTTP handling. This repository enables efficient extraction of data from FotMob.

Inspired by: Webscraper-PremData and scraping-football-sites

Overview

FMScraper is a web scraping tool designed to extract comprehensive football match statistics and data from FotMob, a popular platform for football statistics, live scores, and match analysis. The tool automates the data collection process, handling JavaScript-driven content and dynamic page layouts that traditional scraping methods cannot access.

Features

• Scrapes match info from FotMob
• Extracts data for specific leagues, seasons, and matchweeks
• Provides easily exportable or processable match data for further analysis.

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• requests

Disclaimer

For educational and research purposes only. Do not use it commercially.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/MieszkoPugowski/FMScraper.git
cd FMScraper

2. Install using pip:

pip install fmscraper

Example usage

from fmscraper import FotMobStats 

bundesliga_stats = FotMobStats(league_id=38,season="2024-2025")
game_ids = bundesliga_stats.get_matches_list(team_or_all='all')

first_game = game_ids[0]

# List of all shots in a game
shotlist = bundesliga_stats.get_match_details(match_id=first_game,
                                                content_type="shotmap")
print(shotlist)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request or open an issue.