Retrieve players messieurs list (ranked) for a given club — get.club.player.list.m • PingMeUp

Submits a POST request to the AFTT club ranking page and extracts the Messieurs ranking. The function isolates the JSON array defining the rows for the selected club and returns it as a data frame.

Usage

get.club.player.list.m(indice)

Arguments

indice: Character string. Club indice (e.g., "N051").

Value

A data frame containing the players list of the club as of the AFTT website at the moment of retrieval, sorted by ranking. Column names follow the structure of the JSON returned by the site but player names are removed and licence number is used as unique id. Licence number is extracted from the action field (button) of the html

position: ranking
position_bis: ranking without inactive or 'inactive'
classement: classement at start of season
club: indice club (i.e. same as function argument)
match: number of matches played so far in season
points: points so far in season
licence: licence number extracted from the html action button

Note

This function scrapes content from the AFTT website https://data.aftt.be/ranking/clubs.php for a single club. Only the Messieurs category is extracted. Uses httr, rvest, stringr, and jsonlite.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
playersN051 <- get.club.player.list.m("N051")
head(playersN051)
} # }