{"id":42621,"date":"2026-09-17T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/self-promotion-python-pipeline-for-collecting-2026-fifa-world-cup-data-from-multiple-sources\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:27:10","slug":"self-promotion-python-pipeline-for-collecting-2026-fifa-world-cup-data-from-multiple-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/self-promotion-python-pipeline-for-collecting-2026-fifa-world-cup-data-from-multiple-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"[self-promotion] Python Pipeline For Collecting 2026 FIFA World Cup Data From Multiple Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I recently worked on a Python project to collect and analyze 2026 FIFA World Cup data from FIFA, Sofascore, and Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>There is no downloadable dataset yet. The repository contains the collection and analysis code, so the data can be generated by running the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The project was built to handle three different source types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia pages with server-rendered HTML.<\/li>\n<li>Sofascore data exposed through JSON endpoints.<\/li>\n<li>FIFA data accessed through browser automation and a session-authenticated API.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After extraction, the pipeline cleans and normalizes the responses for team- and player-level analysis using Python and Pandas.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis currently explores metrics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shot-conversion rate.<\/li>\n<li>Expected goals.<\/li>\n<li>Passing accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Pressing.<\/li>\n<li>Ball recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Team and player performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Repository:<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ZenRows\/scraping-world-cup-data\">https:\/\/github.com\/ZenRows\/scraping-world-cup-data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The accompanying ZenRows write-up explains the collection approach and analysis in more detail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zenrows.com\/blog\/scrape-2026-fifa-world-cup-data-python\">https:\/\/www.zenrows.com\/blog\/scrape-2026-fifa-world-cup-data-python<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data retrieval date: July 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: this project and the accompanying analysis are associated with ZenRows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/InsideDebt6345\"> \/u\/InsideDebt6345 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1wiqffe\/selfpromotion_python_pipeline_for_collecting_2026\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1wiqffe\/selfpromotion_python_pipeline_for_collecting_2026\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-42621 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='42621' data-nonce='b9a40cecc8' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-42621 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-42621 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently worked on a Python project to collect and analyze 2026 FIFA World Cup data from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}