FotMob Scraping Warning

[mcefis]

Good morning,

I had a problem with web scraping from FotMob; here below the warning:

---

**> Eredivisie_fotmob_rating <- fotmob_get_season_stats(

• country = "NED",
• league_name = "Eredivisie",
• season_name = "2021/2022",
• stat_name = "Assists",
• team_or_player = "player"
• )
  Error in map2():
  ℹ In index: 1.
  Caused by error in pmap():
  ℹ In index: 1.
  Caused by error in .fotmob_get_stat_and_season_options():
  ! Can't find season stats data. Failed with the following error:
  Can't find season stats data. Failed with the following error:
  Run rlang::last_trace() to see where the error occurred.
  Warning message:
  In sprintf("Can't find season stats data. Failed with the following error:\n", :
  one argument not used by format 'Can't find season stats data. Failed with the following error:**
  '

---

I have installed the last version of the library (worldfootballR_0.6.2). How can I fix this problem?

Let me know, many thanks.

Best regards,
Mattia

[tonyelhabr]

Please install the latest version of worldfootballR (with remotes::install_github("JaseZiv/worldfootballR")) and let me know if you have the same issue.

I can't seem to replicate your issue with the latest version of the package.

library(worldfootballR)
packageVersion("worldfootballR")
#> [1] '0.6.3.8'
Eredivisie_fotmob_rating <- fotmob_get_season_stats(
  country = "NED",
  league_name = "Eredivisie",
  season_name = "2021/2022",
  stat_name = "Assists",
  team_or_player = "player"
)
dim(Eredivisie_fotmob_rating)
#> [1] 236  20

[mcefis]

I followed your instruction but I still have an error:

library(worldfootballR)
packageVersion("worldfootballR")
[1] ‘0.6.3.8’
#1)Team stats
SerieA_team_stats_22_23 = fotmob_get_season_stats(

• country = "ITA",
• league_name = "Serie A",
• season_name = "2022/2023",
• stat_name = "xG conceded",
• team_or_player = "team"
• )
  Error: no applicable method for 'distinct' applied to an object of class "list"

---

Let me know, many thanks

[tonyelhabr]

the message that you see is because .fotmob_get_stat_and_season_options() tries to scrape data for 2023/24 since the season option is shown in the menu, but there is no data yet for it (here). i can eliminate the message by setting quiet = TRUE here to prevent confusion.

in reality, you should still be getting a valid result from your function call despite the error message. observe that i get a 20-row dataframe back from the function call.

library(worldfootballR)
packageVersion("worldfootballR")
#> [1] '0.6.3.8'

res <- fotmob_get_season_stats(
  country = "ITA",
  league_name = "Serie A",
  season_name = "2022/2023",
  stat_name = "xG conceded",
  team_or_player = "team"
)
#> Error: no applicable method for 'distinct' applied to an object of class "list"
dim(res)
#> [1] 20 20

i may tackle this issue this weekend, but, as i've noted, you should still be getting valid data from the function call.

[mcefis]

You're right, it was a refuse: now it works! Many thanks