How to scrape horse racing data using pandas read_html
Purpose
Predict horse racing with machine learning and aim for a recovery rate of 100%.
What to do this time
Scraping all 2019 race results from netkeiba.com. Data with a table tag can be scraped in one line by using pandas read_html, which is convenient.
pd.read_html("https://db.netkeiba.com/race/201902010101")[0]
Source code
Since race_id is assigned to each race on netkeiba.com, if you put in a list of race_id, create a function that scrapes each race result together and returns it in a dictionary type.
import pandas as pd
import time
from tqdm.notebook import tqdm
def scrape_race_results(race_id_list, pre_race_results={}):
race_results = pre_race_results
for race_id in tqdm(race_id_list):
if race_id in race_results.keys():
continue
try:
url = "https://db.netkeiba.com/race/" + race_id
race_results[race_id] = pd.read_html(url)[0]
time.sleep(1)
except IndexError:
continue
except:
break
return race_results
This time, I want to scrape the results of all races in 2019, so I will make a list of all race_ids in 2019.
race_id_list = []
for place in range(1, 11, 1):
for kai in range(1, 6, 1):
for day in range(1, 9, 1):
for r in range(1, 13, 1):
race_id = (
"2019"
+ str(place).zfill(2)
+ str(kai).zfill(2)
+ str(day).zfill(2)
+ str(r).zfill(2)
)
race_id_list.append(race_id)
After scraping, convert it to pandas DataFrame type and save it as a pickle file.
results = scrape_race_results(race_id_list)
for key in results:
results[key].index = [key] * len(results[key])
results = pd.concat([results[key] for key in results], sort=False)
results.to_pickle('results.pickle')
Next article uses BeautifulSoup to scrape detailed data such as race dates and weather!
In addition, we explain in detail in the video!
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