motogp-scraper

Scrapes official MotoGP/Moto2/Moto3 race results and championship standings from motogp.com, via the site's own public results API — no login required.

Contents

• Key features
• Output
• Input
• Input examples
• Incremental (delta) mode
• How to scrape motogp.com
• FAQ

🔑 Key features

• Two entity types, one Actor. Set entityType to results (session-by-session finishing order) or standings (final championship standings).
• Real historical depth. MotoGP's own API has real data for ~78 seasons.
• Full session detail. Every result includes rider, team, constructor, time, gap to the leader, average speed, laps, points, and status — for every session type (practice, qualifying, sprint, warm-up, race).
• Real season-long rollups on every standings row — wins, podiums, sprint wins, and sprint podiums, computed by the site's own API, not estimated.
• seasonYear/category scoping — crawl one season and/or one class instead of walking all history.
• Delta mode built in. Every run classifies each item as new, changed, unchanged, or delisted against a persisted baseline.
• maxItems defaults to 50 — a fast preview, and what keeps an unconfigured run within Apify's automated 5-minute QA check. Clear maxItems (null) for a full run.

📋 Output

One dataset item per rider-per-session (results) or rider-per-season (standings) — see .actor/dataset_schema.json for the full field list, or the Output tab's Results / Standings views for a readable table.

Example result record:

{
  "source": "motogp",
  "entity_type": "results",
  "external_id": "8c630d23-bb85-4827-81d7-f9b2e4c9f342",
  "url": "https://www.motogp.com/en/gp-results/2025/tha/motogp/rac/classification",
  "season_year": 2025,
  "category": "MotoGP",
  "event_name": "GRAND PRIX OF THAILAND",
  "circuit": "Chang International Circuit",
  "country": "Thailand",
  "session_type": "RAC",
  "position": 1,
  "rider_name": "Marc Marquez",
  "rider_country": "Spain",
  "team_name": "Ducati Lenovo Team",
  "constructor_name": "Ducati",
  "time": "39:37.244",
  "average_speed": 179.3,
  "total_laps": 26,
  "points": 25,
  "status": "INSTND",
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example standing record:

{
  "source": "motogp",
  "entity_type": "standings",
  "external_id": "c02e9026-9bba-4788-95cc-cab16b3283f6",
  "url": "https://www.motogp.com/en/gp-results/2025/standings/motogp",
  "season_year": 2025,
  "category": "MotoGP",
  "position": 1,
  "rider_name": "Marc Marquez",
  "team_name": "Ducati Lenovo Team",
  "points": 545,
  "race_wins": 11,
  "podiums": 15,
  "sprint_wins": 14,
  "sprint_podiums": 16,
  "change_type": "new"
}

🔧 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
entityType	string	results	results or standings.
seasonYear	integer	—	Scope to one season, e.g. 2025.
category	string	—	Scope to one class: motogp / moto2 / moto3.
maxItems	integer	50	Stop after pushing this many items. Set to null for a full crawl.
mode	string	auto	auto / full / incremental — see Incremental mode.
concurrency	integer	20	How many API calls to fetch in parallel — validated at real sustained scale, see FAQ.
impersonate	string	chrome	curl_cffi TLS-impersonation target.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Apify Proxy config — not needed; no anti-bot friction found.

📥 Input examples

Default preview (50 results):

{ "entityType": "results" }

A full season's race results:

{ "entityType": "results", "seasonYear": 2025, "maxItems": null }

A season's final MotoGP standings only:

{ "entityType": "standings", "seasonYear": 2025, "category": "motogp", "maxItems": null }

🔁 Incremental (delta) mode

auto mode does a full scan the first time it runs for a given entityType/scope, then only pushes new/changed items on later runs. Only an uncapped, error-free run can detect delistings or update the baseline. In practice, results for a finished session/season rarely change — this mostly matters for catching mid-weekend corrections or a season still in progress.

🌐 How to scrape motogp.com

motogp.com's own frontend calls a real, public REST API (api.pulselive.motogp.com/motogp/v1/results/...) with no authentication required — this Actor replicates exactly those calls: seasons → events → categories → sessions → classification (or, for standings, seasons → categories → standings directly).

❓ FAQ

Is there a rider/team directory? Not as a separate entity type — motogp.com's own rider-profile pages are thin (bio text only, no structured career stats) and its team sitemap is empty. Every rider/team name you'd want is already on every results/standings row.

Does this need a proxy or API key? No — the results API is fully open, no authentication or key required, and no anti-bot friction was found anywhere.

Why is concurrency capped at 20? That's the highest level validated so far — a full season of results and the complete 78-season standings history were both crawled at concurrency 20 with zero errors and no rate-limit wall found.

A season's total points looks like a decimal (e.g. 207.5) — is that a bug? No — MotoGP awards half points for a race stopped early or shortened by weather, so both a single session's points and a season's summed total can be genuinely fractional. points is a real number, not always a whole one.