Scraping Tennis Player Data From Flashscore using Python and Selenium

Today we will be scraping Tennis Players Names, Age, DOB and Nationality from Flashscore, which can be used to create your own database of players for any data/predictive or exploratory analysis. I will be releasing a tutorial in the next few days showing you how to setup a supabase instance where you can store this data, so keep an eye out for that.

There are possibly better sites to do this on, but given the fact that flashscore has many sports already, its great to be able to apply some of these techniques across the different sports.

I have not scraped the ranking of the tennis players but that is something you can very easily extend this project to do, which is maybe something for a future article.

Now that all of that is out of the way lets begin.

First step is to import all of your packages needed, a list of mine along with the full code can be found here. I would recommend looking at the overall project first as this is fairly long compared to my other tutorials.