Scraping NBA Player Tracking Data in R (and Python)

Basic scraper in R to grab the NBA sport tracking data from website and load it into one data frame. For more information, see blog post here.

• nbascraper.R is the actual code for scraping the data.
• nba_data_5-10.csv and nba.csv are somewhat-recent copies of the resulting CSV (if you just want the data).

In addition to the R code documented above, this repo also contains a related python script for pulling additional player metadata (e.g. positions, birthdates, etc.) from the NBA website via an internal API.

• pullPositions.py is the script for pulling the position (and other) metadata
• position_data.csv is the resulting CSV.