Scraping Fifa mens ranking with Scrapy and hidden API
An approach to retrieving the Fifa men ranking using the hidden API of the Fifa website.
An approach to retrieving the Fifa men ranking using the hidden API of the Fifa website. It is also an update of an article published on Medium in April 2023.
This script uses Scrapy and allows you to retrieve both the current ranking and the history in just a few seconds.
The Python version used is 3.12, but the program can run with at least 3.9.
Heric
Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Héric Libong. After a long career as a journalist, I decided 7 years ago to move into data science and then software development. Python is my main programming language. I'm an expert in Web Scraping and data extraction techniques. My development environment is the Django framework.