This is an example of a page that lists baseball stats for a selected player, defaulting to the most recent year (2014, soon to be 2015)
http://www.koreabaseball.com/Record/Player/HitterDetail/Game.aspx?playerId=76325
The drop down list allows the user to selected years back to 2010, but doesn't not change the displayed url. How can I scrape all the available years, from each value in the drop down list?
I'm currently using Python and BeautifulSoup, but I'm willing to use whatever will get the job done.
<select name="ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear"
onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear\',\'\')', 0)"
id="cphContainer_cphContents_ddlYear"
class="select02 mgt30">
<option value="2014">2014</option>
<option value="2013">2013</option>
<option selected="selected" value="2012">2012</option>
<option value="2011">2011</option>
<option value="2010">2010</option>
Do it in two steps:
- make a GET request, parse HTML and extract the form input values
- make a POST request parsing input values alongside with
ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear
parameter which is responsible for the year
Implementation example for year 2013 (using requests
and BeautifulSoup
):
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url = 'http://www.koreabaseball.com/Record/Player/HitterDetail/Game.aspx?playerId=76325'
with requests.Session() as session:
session.headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36'}
# parsing parameters
response = session.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content)
data = {
'ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear': '2013',
'ctl00$ctl00$txtSearchWord': '',
'__EVENTTARGET': soup.find('input', {'name': '__EVENTTARGET'}).get('value', ''),
'__EVENTARGUMENT': soup.find('input', {'name': '__EVENTARGUMENT'}).get('value', ''),
'__LASTFOCUS': soup.find('input', {'name': '__LASTFOCUS'}).get('value', ''),
'__VIEWSTATE': soup.find('input', {'name': '__VIEWSTATE'}).get('value', ''),
'__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR': soup.find('input', {'name': '__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR'}).get('value', ''),
'__EVENTVALIDATION': soup.find('input', {'name': '__EVENTVALIDATION'}).get('value', ''),
}
# parsing data
response = session.post(url, data=data)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content)
for row in soup.select('table.tData01 tr'):
print [td.text for td in row.find_all('td')]
This prints the contents of all stats tables for 2013:
[u'KIA', u'16', u'0.364', u'55', u'8', u'20', u'3', u'0', u'3', u'11', u'5', u'0', u'14', u'0', u'14', u'1']
[u'LG', u'15', u'0.321', u'53', u'7', u'17', u'1', u'0', u'2', u'9', u'1', u'1', u'6', u'3', u'10', u'2']
[u'NC', u'16', u'0.237', u'59', u'5', u'14', u'2', u'0', u'2', u'10', u'2', u'0', u'3', u'0', u'17', u'2']
[u'SK', u'16', u'0.235', u'51', u'7', u'12', u'1', u'0', u'3', u'13', u'1', u'3', u'13', u'1', u'12', u'4']
[u'\ub450\uc0b0', u'16', u'0.368', u'57', u'16', u'21', u'2', u'1', u'4', u'21', u'2', u'1', u'12', u'0', u'13', u'2']
[u'\ub86f\ub370', u'16', u'0.375', u'56', u'9', u'21', u'4', u'0', u'3', u'13', u'4', u'3', u'11', u'0', u'9', u'3']
[u'\uc0bc\uc131', u'16', u'0.226', u'62', u'8', u'14', u'5', u'0', u'3', u'10', u'0', u'0', u'8', u'1', u'15', u'1']
[u'\ud55c\ud654', u'15', u'0.211', u'57', u'7', u'12', u'3', u'0', u'2', u'9', u'0', u'0', u'1', u'1', u'19', u'3']
...
An example using Mechanize and Ruby. Modify the form field and submit.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new{ |agent| agent.history.max_size=0 }
agent.user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0'
url = "http://www.koreabaseball.com/Record/Player/HitterDetail/Game.aspx?playerId=76325"
page = agent.get(url)
form = page.forms[0]
p form['ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear']
form['ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear'] = 2013
page = form.submit
form = page.forms[0]
p form['ctl00$ctl00$cphContainer$cphContents$ddlYear']