Sofascore Scraper — Live Scores, Events & Results | $1.9/1K

Sofascore Scraper — Live Scores, Events & Results

Extract live scores, scheduled fixtures and results from Sofascore for 18+ sports — football, basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey, and more.

Ideal for live odds models, sports data feeds, betting analytics pipelines, and match-tracking applications.

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Use cases

• Live odds & in-play betting models — poll live scores and match minute in real-time
• Sports data feeds — collect daily fixture/result data across dozens of leagues
• Betting analytics — compare pre-match schedules vs. final results
• Fantasy sports automation — track scores and status across multiple events
• Research & journalism — pull historical results or monitor ongoing tournaments

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What you get

Field	Description
home_team / away_team	Full team names
home_score / away_score	Current scores (null = not yet played)
home_score_period1/2	Period-level breakdown (halves, quarters, sets)
status	scheduled / live / finished / postponed / cancelled
status_description	Sofascore label: 1st half, Halftime, 2nd half, etc.
live_minute	In-game minute for live events
start_time	ISO-8601 UTC kickoff time
tournament / league / country	Competition hierarchy
round / round_name	Round number + name
event_id / event_url	Sofascore IDs and direct link
parse_confidence	Data quality: 1.0 = full API data

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Sample output

{
  "event_id": "16092698",
  "event_url": "https://www.sofascore.com/japan-south-africa/VsaMsas#id:16092698",
  "sport": "football",
  "country": "World",
  "tournament": "International Friendly Games, Women",
  "league": "International Friendly Games, Women",
  "tournament_id": "1361",
  "round": null,
  "round_name": "",
  "home_team": "Japan",
  "away_team": "South Africa",
  "home_team_id": "5781",
  "away_team_id": "38024",
  "home_score": 0,
  "away_score": 1,
  "home_score_period1": 0,
  "away_score_period1": 1,
  "home_score_period2": 0,
  "away_score_period2": 0,
  "status": "live",
  "status_code": 8,
  "status_description": "2nd half",
  "live_minute": 72,
  "start_time": "2026-06-09T08:00:00+00:00",
  "start_timestamp": 1749456000,
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T10:31:00+00:00",
  "parse_confidence": 1.0
}

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sport	select	football	Sport slug: football, basketball, tennis, baseball, hockey…
mode	select	by-date	by-date = all events on a given date; live = in-play events only
date	string	today UTC	Date filter YYYY-MM-DD. Only used in by-date mode.
statusFilter	select	all	Filter by scheduled, live, finished, or all
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum records to return (0 = unlimited)
proxyConfiguration	proxy	RESIDENTIAL	Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy (billed to your run)

Tip: by-date mode is the most reliable — it returns events regardless of time of day and is the best choice for scheduled pipelines.

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Supported sports

Football/Soccer, Basketball, Tennis, Baseball, Ice Hockey, Volleyball, Handball, American Football, Rugby, Cricket, Badminton, Table Tennis, Cycling, Golf, MMA, Boxing, Snooker, Darts

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Technical notes

• Transport: Sofascore's clean internal JSON API — no HTML parsing, no browser needed.
• Anti-bot: Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy handles IP-based restrictions. No external keys.
• Reliability: Automatic proxy rotation and retry on temporary blocks.
• Live fallback: When live mode returns 0 in-play events (off-peak hours), the actor automatically falls back to today's full schedule.
• Pricing: Pay per event item returned.

💰 Pricing & how we compare

Pay-per-result (PPE): $0.99 / 1K results. You are billed per event-item actually returned — plus the tiny apify-actor-start fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top.

Our edge: Cheapest credible PAID Sofascore source · live + scheduled by sport & date · 15+ sports · no API key.

Pricing examples (pay only for what you get, minus Apify's 20%):

Volume	Cost
100 results	$0.10
1,000 results	$0.99
10,000 results	$9.90

How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09)

Actor	Their price	What they lack vs us
parseforge/sofascore-live-scraper	$33.50/1K	100% success but ~34× our price per result
maximedupre/sofascore-live-events-scraper	$30.15/1K	~30× our price
azzouzana/sofascore-scraper-pro	FREE	569 users, but free tier = no support guarantee, URL-only input

Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is agent-ready (category MCP_SERVERS). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n AI, LangGraph) at it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/sofascore-live-events",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}