Scraping Fifa mens ranking with Scrapy and hidden API
An approach to retrieving the Fifa men ranking using the hidden API of the Fifa website. It is also an update of an article published on Medium in April 2023.
This script uses Scrapy and allows you to retrieve both the current ranking and the history in just a few seconds.
The Python version used is 3.12, but the program can run with at least 3.9.