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twitter_handle = [] | |
for row in wiz_per_game.find_all('tr')[1:]: | |
player = {} | |
# Taking the row's first hyperlink (player's url ending) and appending it to the base url | |
# to get the player's personal webpage url. | |
player_url = ('https://www.basketball-reference.com/' + row.find('a').attrs['href']) | |
# Making a new BeautifulSoup instance of the player's webpage and narrowing it to the top section | |
player_rest = requests.get(player_url) | |
player_soup = BeautifulSoup(player_rest.content, 'lxml') | |
player_info = player_soup.find(name = 'div', attrs = {'itemtype' : 'https://schema.org/Person'}) | |
# Adding player's name for clarity | |
player['Name'] = row.find('a').text.strip() | |
# Creating a list of all the hyperlinks from player_info | |
player_links= [] | |
for link in player_info.find_all('a'): | |
player_links.append(link.get('href')) | |
# If a player's twitter exists, the link is second in the player_links list. If it doesn't exist, | |
# the value is set to 'Not Listed'. | |
if 'twitter' in player_links[1]: | |
player['Twitter Handle'] = player_links[1].replace('https://twitter.com/', '') | |
else: | |
player['Twitter Handle'] = 'Not Listed' | |
twitter_handle.append(player) | |
pd.DataFrame(twitter_handle) |
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