CS:GO Pro Matches Comprehensive Dataset

Dataset Overview

Dataset Name

CS:GO Pro Matches Comprehensive Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains professional CS:GO game data from 2012 to 2023 and is currently the largest public CS:GO professional match dataset.

Dataset Size

• Shape: (126,872, 155)
• File size: approximately 87 MB

Data Content

• Detailed data for 126,872 matches, each recording 155 different features.

Data Collection

• Data were scraped from the HLTV website using Python scripts with Selenium and BeautifulSoup.
• The scraping process ran for 12 days on a Google Cloud Platform VM.
• Three CSV files were generated:
  • historic_games_list.csv: list of games with corresponding webpages and basic game information.
  • game_data.csv: detailed game data extracted from individual game webpages.
  • exception_data: records of all exceptions encountered during scraping.

Data Processing

• historic_games_list.csv and game_data.csv were merged, cleaned, and feature‑engineered to produce csgp_pro_games_data.csv.

Technology Stack

• Data processing and analysis: Jupyter Notebook, Python
• Database: MySQL
• Cloud service: Google Cloud
• Web‑scraping tools: Selenium

Data Usage

Researchers, scientists, machine‑learning engineers, data engineers, and enthusiasts are encouraged to use this dataset for model building, analysis, and research, and to share findings with the esports and data communities.

Contact

• Project link: CS:GO Pro Matches Comprehensive Dataset
• Contact: @tedtay