Class: NbaRoster

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
NbaUrls
Defined in:
lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb

Overview

Access NBA roster data

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from NbaUrls

#boxScoreUrl, #formatTeamUrl, #getTid, #playerUrl, #teamListUrl, #teamRosterUrl, #teamScheduleUrl

Constructor Details

#initialize(team_id) ⇒ NbaRoster

Scrape Roster Data

Examples:

r = NbaRoster.new("UTA")

Parameters:

  • team_id (String) —

    Three letter TeamID



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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 12

def initialize(team_id)
	unless (team_id == '')
		url = formatTeamUrl(team_id, teamRosterUrl)  # Generate URL
		doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))				   		 # Get DOM
		if doc.nil?																	 # Error gracefully
			return []
		end
		list = doc.xpath('//div/div/table/tr')
		pList = list[2,list.length-3]				  	     # Get Player Nodes

		@coach = list[list.length - 1].children[0].text.split(':')[1].strip  # Read Coach Name
		@players = []
		pList.each do |row|
			cnt = 0
			tmp = []
			tmp << team_id  									  #Team ID
			row.children.each do |cell|
				txt = cell.text.chomp.strip
				case cnt
				when 0, 2, 3, 5	 									# 0 Player No, 2 Position, 3 Age, 5 Weight
					tmp << txt
				when 1 														# Player Name
					tmp << txt.gsub("'","\'")
					tmp << cell.children[0].attribute("href").text[/id\/(\d+)/, 1] # Player ID
				when 4													  # Player Height
					tmp.concat(txt.split('-'))
				when 6 														# College
					tmp << txt.gsub("'","\'").strip
				when 7 														# Salary
					# Remove extraneous symbols
					txt = txt.gsub('$','')
					txt = txt.gsub(',','').strip()
					tmp << (txt.length > 1 ? txt : 0)  # Store Positive Salary (Default: 0)
				end
				cnt += 1
			end
			if !tmp.nil?
				@players << tmp
			end
		end
		return @players
	end
end

Instance Attribute Details

#coach ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute coach.



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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 5

def coach
  @coach
end

#players ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute players.



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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 5

def players
  @players
end

Instance Method Details

#getCoach ⇒ String

Return coach Name

Examples:

r.getCoach("UTA") #=> "Jerry Sloan"

Returns:

  • (String) —

    Coach Name



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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 69

def getCoach()
	return @coach
end

#getRoster ⇒ [object]

Note:

Roster row [TeamId, Jersey #, Player Name, ESPN Player ID, Position, Age, Height ft, Height in, Weight, College, Salary]

Returns Team Roster

Returns:

  • ([object]) 


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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 60

def getRoster()
	return @players
end

#toString ⇒ String

String representation

Returns:

  • (String) 


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# File 'lib/espnscrape/NbaRoster.rb', line 76

def toString()
	res = ''
	@players.each do |p|
		res = res + p.join(',')
	end
end