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I would like to know if it is possible to add the functions of the website https://www.whoscored.com to worldfootballR. It has interesting information that could be very useful for analysis.
Regards.
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WhoScored has good data, I agree. However, I just don't see it as too practical. WhoScored loads webpage data on the client side, which means we'd probably need to use something like Selenium to get the data. We've avoided using Selenium in this package for at least 2 reasons:
to simplify dependencies (both package and OS)
to prevent having "frail" code
For example, Selenium with R is fairly prone to leaving open connections, which can lead to mysterious OOM errors. This can be avoided with smart error handling, but that puts a lot more responsibility on the package developers to write really robust code. @JaseZiv and I strive to do this, but we're also not spending enough time on package development to guarantee this. (Just look at the package source, and you can see lots of ugly code 😅 !)
I would like to know if it is possible to add the functions of the website https://www.whoscored.com to
worldfootballR
. It has interesting information that could be very useful for analysis.Regards.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: