Inspired by the following tutorial: https://towardsdatascience.com/fantasy-premier-league-value-analysis-python-tutorial-using-the-fpl-api-8031edfe9910
The repo is based in python3 and jupyter with jupytext for agile version control.
git clone https://github.com/martgra/fpl2021.git
cd fpl2021
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# On windows venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .The dataset from Fantasy Premier League is accessed by folling this link. https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/bootstrap-static/
As of now the dataset is downloaded every 6th hour (UTC) and stored as as Azure blob "snapshot" with the format
%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ_data.json
Access to the dataset is provided with "read only" access through:
# Download all new data from Azure Blob Storage to disk
$ fantasy storage download-all
$ fantasy storage --container 2021-fpl-data download-allAPI - Other useful methods
- Fixtures: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/fixtures/
- A single teams hostory: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/entry/{}/history/
- A single teams score: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/entry/{team-id}/
- Score in a specific "classic"-league: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/leagues-classic/{league-id}/standings/
- Score in a specific "H2H"-league: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/leagues-h2h/{league-id}/standings/
- Latest transfers: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/entry/{team-id}/transfers-latest/
- My Team https://fantasy.premierleague.com/api/my-team/{team-id}/ *
*To use the "my team api" authentication is required. See following link https://medium.com/@bram.vanherle1/fantasy-premier-league-api-authentication-guide-2f7aeb2382e4)
- Reddit-thread about FPL API https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyPL/comments/c64rrx/fpl_api_url_has_been_changed/
- Blogpost about FPL API (its a little old, but change drf with api and it seems to work) https://medium.com/@YourMumSaysWhat/how-to-get-data-from-the-fantasy-premier-league-api-4477d6a334c3
- Historic data for the FPL https://github.com/vaastav/Fantasy-Premier-League