clj-baseball

This is a Clojure library inspired by Python's pybaseball. It scrapes HTML and CSV data on baseball websites and makes it friendly to work with at the REPL. Baseball data is hugely plentiful and granular; I think it makes for an excellent match with a data-driven language like Clojure. My intention in building this library (besides having fun) is to offer a way for users to learn Clojure with abundant real world data. Even if the sport of baseball does not interest you, its ready-to-use data provides an excellent opportunity to explore the language ecosystem without hacking on your own web app or seeking out inferior APIs, second-rate "dummy data", or any other inadequate and frustrating option.

Code organization

The public API is implemented in com/slothrop/clj_baseball. The core functions for interacting with the library are in api.clj in this directory. All folders outside of the aforementioned directory are still under development.

Python interop!

This is an experimental feature, but for now basic DataFrames are available thanks to the excellent libpython-clj library. Two idiomatic Clojure wrappers around some DataFrame class methods (DataFrame.from_dict and DataFrame.from_records) are provided. To enable Python support, you must of course have Python installed on your machine, and use one of the jdk-?? aliases specified in deps.edn, based on your version of Java. This includes modules required only by libpython-clj when the JVM starts.

If you clone this repo, you can use these features. However, it is recommended to instead use the JVM-native functionality provided by tech.ml.dataset and tablecloth. It requires less dependencies for a far greater breadth of immediately available tabular operations. Moreover, the Python interop namespace will be removed in the v0.4.0 release.