Easiest Way to Scrape Match Odds For Any Football Matches on PaddyPower

Im back after a long hiatus.

Today I will show how with some simple Python code how we can scrape match odds for any football league on PaddyPower.

Lets not waste any time and get into it.

First you will obviously need Python installed on your PC as well as an IDE. I use Jupyter notebooks but any others should work fine aswell.

As well as this, you will need chromedriver installed. To install simply search chromedriver on google and make sure to download the version that corresponds to your current chrome browser version, that you can find by clikcing the three dots in the top right and finding version under “About Chrome”.

Now that this housekeeping is out of the way we can begin.

First import all necessary packages. I will include below the ones I have, but these are mostly just ones I copy and use for all projects.

from supabase import create_client
import json
import pandas as pd
from datetime import date
import statsmodels
import numpy as np
import datetime
from datetime import datetime
import time
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import statistics
import requests #The requests library for HTTP requests in Python
import xlsxwriter #The XlsxWriter libarary for…