Culling data from NHL.com

[Germant]

I used to copy and paste data from tables found on nhl.com/stats (e.g. NHL.com - Stats).

It was easy, highlight, copy, go into excel, paste.

The site doesn't allow that any longer as pasting really screws up the format.

Does anybody know an easy workaround? I'm not familiar with webscraping but if that's the only way, can somebody point me to a place where I can learn?

 

[Germant]

Oh, and when pasting TOI into excel, some cells are converted into dates. I've googled this problem but couldn't find a solution. If anybody knows a workaround to either this problem or the above problem and could shed some light on it, I'd forever be grateful.

 

[LeHab]

Google around for NHL REST API stats for automated scraping of stats. There are also tools which will do the job for you such as : nhlscrapi: NHL Scraper API — nhlscrapi documentation

If you just want to copy & paste then highlight and select rows you want, right click to print. In print preview you may want to set the page to landscape. Copy Rows then paste into Excel (2010 in my case). You should have a single column and each row with data separated by a space. In Excel, go to Data then use text to columns with space as delimiter.

 

[LeHab]

This is what I get:

To

 

[Doctor No]

This thread is also pretty useful for scraping NHL.com:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/nhl-com-sochi-2014-data-urls-in-json-and-jsonp.1596119/

 

[Germant]

This is what I get:

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Well, that makes things easy!

 

[Germant]

Thanks LeHab and Doctor No.

Just through google I had found that NHLscraper link but I was hoping for an easier solution because, well, because I'm old and learning what the heck a json file was would've likely killed me. But right clicking, print, and then copying the result from print preview really did the trick quite nicely.

I just paste that into Word Perfect, replace all the HRt (Hard Return) with Left Tab and then copy and paste right into excel.

On some of the reports, I'm not sure Landscape will get all the data though so I might still have to learn that NHLscraper though. Fingers crossed . . .

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Word Perfect

You are old.

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WP 5.1 for Dos FTW !

 

[LeHab]

Thanks LeHab and Doctor No.

Just through google I had found that NHLscraper link but I was hoping for an easier solution because, well, because I'm old and learning what the heck a json file was would've likely killed me. But right clicking, print, and then copying the result from print preview really did the trick quite nicely.

I just paste that into Word Perfect, replace all the HRt (Hard Return) with Left Tab and then copy and paste right into excel.

On some of the reports, I'm not sure Landscape will get all the data though so I might still have to learn that NHLscraper though. Fingers crossed . . .

You could try changing page size when in print preview. Should capture more columns if needed.

 

[alko]

If im correct, it also depends on Browser, you are using. Chrome is good.

Had bad experience with Modzilla. Maybe things changed, never used it for years.

 

[Pens3peat]

NHL 2016-17 Player Data - Hockey Abstract

Unless you need real-time stats, this site has what ya need. Download the zip folder. Open.

 

[seventieslord]

The tips in this thread don't seem to work for me. Anything else you can suggest?

 

[Hockey Outsider]

The tips in this thread don't seem to work for me. Anything else you can suggest?

The short answer is - there isn't a good way.

For example if you copy the standard player stats (23 columns), it would copy into Excel as 23 rows. Then the second player's stats (also 23 columns) becomes rows 24-46, etc.

You can then manually add a formula in row 1. For example, cell B1 = A2, cell C1 = A3, cell D1 = A4, etc. Then paste that every 24th row. This will pick up all the data and convert it into one row with the 23 columns.

If you design the formula properly, it's perfectly accurate, but obviously this is inefficient.