# NFL Injury Report - Practice & Game Status, History, Changes (`alex9080/nfl-injury-report`) Actor

Official NFL.com injury report as clean JSON: every listed player with injury, practice participation (DNP / Limited / Full) and game status (Out / Doubtful / Questionable). Current week, any week, or full history since 2009. Tracks what changed since your last run.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alex9080/nfl-injury-report.md
- **Developed by:** [Alex](https://apify.com/alex9080) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 player rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## NFL Injury Report API: official practice & game status, history since 2009, change alerts

Get the **official NFL.com injury report** as clean JSON or CSV: every listed player with injury, **practice participation** (Did Not Participate / Limited / Full) and **game status** (Out / Doubtful / Questionable). Load the current week, any week, or the **full history since 2009**, and see **what changed since your last run**.

Built for fantasy football tools, DFS and sports betting models, prediction-market bots, newsletters and AI agents that need reliable NFL injury data without scraping headaches.

### What you get

One row per player on the report:

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `season`, `seasonType`, `week`, `weekLabel` | 2025, `POST`, 1, `WILD CARD` |
| `gameDate`, `gameDay`, `gameTime`, `gameTimezone` | 2026-01-10, Saturday, 4:30 PM, EST |
| `matchup`, `isHome` | `LAR @ CAR`, false |
| `team`, `teamAbbr`, `teamRecord`, `opponent`, `opponentAbbr` | Rams, LAR, 12-5, Panthers, CAR |
| `player`, `position`, `playerUrl` | Davante Adams, WR, nfl.com profile |
| `injuries` | `["Knee", "Groin"]` |
| `practiceStatus`, `practiceCode` | Limited Participation in Practice, `LIMITED` |
| `gameStatus` | `Questionable` |
| `changeType`, `previousGameStatus`, `previousPracticeStatus`, `previousInjuries` | `updated`, `Out` |

### Three ways to run it

- **Current week** (default). Run it on a schedule during the week to follow the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday practice reports and the final game designations. Before the first report of a week (and in the offseason) it returns the latest week that has a report.
- **Specific weeks** of one season: week numbers `1`-`18` or `post1` (Wild Card), `post2` (Divisional), `post3` (Conference), `post4` (Super Bowl).
- **History**: every week of a range of seasons, 2009 to today. A full regular season is about 6,500 rows.

### Change alerts

With **Track changes** on, each run is compared with your previous run of the same week:

- `new`: player added to the report
- `updated`: practice or game status or injury changed (previous values included)
- `removed`: player dropped off the report
- `unchanged`, or `first_seen` on the first run

Turn on **Output only changes** and schedule the actor every hour: you get only the moves that matter (for example `Questionable` to `Out`) and pay only for those rows. Connect the dataset to Slack, Discord, email, Google Sheets or a webhook with Apify integrations.

### Filters

- **Teams**: only players of the listed teams (`BUF`, `KC`, `DET`...).
- **Only players with a game status**: skip players listed without Out / Doubtful / Questionable.

### Input example

```json
{
  "mode": "latest",
  "teams": ["KC", "BUF"],
  "onlyWithGameStatus": true,
  "trackChanges": true,
  "onlyChanges": true
}
```

### Use with AI agents

The actor works through the Apify MCP server and API: an agent can ask for this week's report for one team and get compact, typed rows back in seconds.

### Notes

- Data comes from the public NFL.com injury report pages, the same information the league publishes for every game.
- NFL.com is not reachable from every country; the default Apify Proxy setting handles this.
- Injury reports appear during game week; early in the week some games may not have a report yet.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

latest = the current week on NFL.com (use this for monitoring). specific = chosen weeks of one season. history = every week of a range of seasons.

## `season` (type: `integer`):

Season year, e.g. 2025 for the 2025-26 season.

## `weeks` (type: `array`):

Week numbers (1-18) or keys like reg5, post1 (Wild Card), post2, post3, post4 (Super Bowl). Empty = all weeks of the season.

## `seasonFrom` (type: `integer`):

First season to load, e.g. 2024. Data exists from 2009.

## `seasonTo` (type: `integer`):

Last season to load (inclusive).

## `includePostseason` (type: `boolean`):

Also load Wild Card, Divisional, Conference and Super Bowl weeks.

## `teams` (type: `array`):

Optional filter by team abbreviation (BUF, KC, DET...). Only players of these teams are returned.

## `onlyWithGameStatus` (type: `boolean`):

Skip players who are listed but have no Out / Doubtful / Questionable designation.

## `trackChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Compares each week with your previous run and adds changeType (first\_seen / new / updated / unchanged / removed) plus previous statuses.

## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

With change tracking on, return only new, updated and removed players. Ideal for schedules and alerts: you pay only for what changed.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

NFL.com is only reachable from some countries. The default Apify proxy works.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "latest",
  "weeks": [
    "1",
    "2"
  ],
  "seasonFrom": 2024,
  "seasonTo": 2025,
  "includePostseason": true,
  "onlyWithGameStatus": false,
  "trackChanges": true,
  "onlyChanges": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `injuryReport` (type: `string`):

No description

## `allFields` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "weeks": [
        "1",
        "2"
    ],
    "seasonFrom": 2024,
    "seasonTo": 2025,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alex9080/nfl-injury-report").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "weeks": [
        "1",
        "2",
    ],
    "seasonFrom": 2024,
    "seasonTo": 2025,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alex9080/nfl-injury-report").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "weeks": [
    "1",
    "2"
  ],
  "seasonFrom": 2024,
  "seasonTo": 2025,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call alex9080/nfl-injury-report --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alex9080/nfl-injury-report"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ah4DpOLpDBw9f2Ytw/builds/LEfGZoPHEOgaM6bnk/openapi.json