Bet365 Scraper

This is a Python script to grab data for betting odds from the site https://bet365.com/ using Selenium.

Why Selenium?

I would have preferred to use something like BeautifulSoup, but Bet365 has always been my go-to site for sportsbetting, and as far as I can tell there isn't a way to link directly to a market. For example, there is nothing along the lines of https://bet365.com/basketball/futures/nba/mvp as a way to get to the market for the NBA's Most Valuable Player. So instead, using Selenium we navigate there in Firefox from the home page.

How to use

The script uses geckodriver for Selenium. The path it expects to find it is 'C:\Program Files\geckodriver\geckodriver.exe'.

Run the SeleniumScraper.py file with three parameters (each exactly as they appear on the site):

1. The sport (e.g. "Basketball")
2. The market (e.g. "NBA Futures 2018/19")
3. The particular bet (e.g. "Regular Season MVP")

So for example, python SeleniumScraper.py "Basketball" "NBA Futures 2018/19" "Regular Season MVP"