I’m using sync Playwright to scrape football team stats from fbref.com, an example team page would be:

https://fbref.com/en/squads/8774e267/2024/matchlogs/all_comps/shooting/Hacken-Match-Logs-All-Competitions

I specifically had to switch from BeautifulSoup to Playwright to scrape the table that is revealed once you press the dark green button I’ve circled in red:

When inspected, the button reveals:

Normally I’d extract the href but as you can see it’s javascript:void(0)

I’ve tried:

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<code>page.click(".sr_preset")

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<code>page.click(".sr_preset") </code>

page.click(".sr_preset")

(which breaks the code) and:

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<code>page.locator(f"//a[text()='Against {team_name}']").click()

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<code>page.locator(f"//a[text()='Against {team_name}']").click() </code>

page.locator(f"//a[text()='Against {team_name}']").click()

which doesn’t change the table.

Could there be a way to extract ".assoc_matchlogs_against" which I suppose is the table I need?
Or is there a way to click this button?

The code works fine otherwise, I can provide a sample if needed.