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Player's Names Collected Through Python Scraping

Player Names from the 2011 Draft Class were collected from NHL.com using python scraping which is shown in the links below.

Steps Taken

Step 1:Choosing a Website

NHL.com was chosen do to having the 2011 draft in text format.

Step 2: Writing Code

The url was run through requests then the website data was then stored and examined using Beutiful Soup package, pulling all the text data.

The text data was then seperated by specifying the div tag. Additionally, the string text data was divided based off of comma position. This allows the seperation of the names from the other text to occur.

Step 3: Condensing and Writing to JSON

The results were then condensed and written to a json file.