# Flashscore Scraper (`distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Flashscore results and fixtures for football, tennis, basketball, hockey and 18 more sports: league, start time, status, teams or players, score and period scores. Filter by date, league and status. One result per match.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [try mersianto](https://apify.com/distinct_readjustment) (community)
- **Categories:** Sports
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 matches

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.

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

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# README

## Flashscore Scraper

Scrape results and fixtures from [Flashscore](https://www.flashscore.com) for 22 sports: football, tennis, basketball, hockey, American football, baseball, handball, rugby, volleyball, cricket, darts, esports and more. One result per match: competition, start time, status, teams or players, score and score per period. Filter by date, competition and status. $1 per 1,000 matches on the Free plan, less on paid plans. No browser, so a full day of football (hundreds of matches) takes seconds.

### What you get

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sport` | string | Sport, for example football or tennis |
| `match_id` | string | Flashscore match ID |
| `url` | string | Flashscore match page |
| `league` | string or null | Competition as shown by Flashscore, for example ENGLAND: Premier League |
| `country` | string or null | Country or region of the competition |
| `league_url` | string or null | Flashscore competition page |
| `start_time` | string | Scheduled start, UTC, ISO 8601 |
| `status` | string | scheduled, live, finished or other |
| `status_detail` | string | More detail, for example finished, after penalties, postponed, retired, walkover, half time |
| `home_name` | string | Home team or first player |
| `away_name` | string | Away team or second player |
| `home_country` | string or null | Country of the first player, mainly for individual sports |
| `away_country` | string or null | Country of the second player, mainly for individual sports |
| `home_score` | integer or null | Home score: goals, points, or sets won in tennis |
| `away_score` | integer or null | Away score |
| `period_scores` | array | Score per period as \[home, away], in order: quarters, periods, or games per set in tennis and points per set in volleyball. Football: first-half score only. \[null, null] when Flashscore has no value for that period |
| `winner` | string or null | home or away for a finished match with a winner, otherwise null |
| `scraped_at` | string | UTC time the match was scraped, ISO 8601 |

### Input

- `sports`: one or more of `football`, `tennis`, `basketball`, `hockey`, `american-football`, `baseball`, `handball`, `rugby-union`, `floorball`, `bandy`, `futsal`, `volleyball`, `cricket`, `darts`, `aussie-rules`, `rugby-league`, `badminton`, `water-polo`, `field-hockey`, `table-tennis`, `mma`, `esports`. Default `football`.
- `dateFrom` and `dateTo`: day range in UTC, `YYYY-MM-DD`. Flashscore's feed covers 7 days back to 7 days ahead; days outside that are skipped. Default: yesterday and today.
- `status`: `all` (default), `finished` for results, `scheduled` for fixtures, or `live`.
- `leagueFilter`: keep only competitions whose name contains one of these words, for example `premier league`, `nba`, `atp - singles`.
- `maxItems`: stop after this many matches in total. Default 1,000.
- `proxyConfiguration`: fallback proxy, Apify datacenter by default. Each feed is fetched directly first.

```json
{
  "sports": ["football", "basketball"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-15",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-16",
  "status": "finished",
  "leagueFilter": ["premier league", "nba"]
}
```

### Example output

````json
{
  "sport": "football",
  "match_id": "hxZJRCU7",
  "url": "https://www.flashscore.com/match/hxZJRCU7/",
  "league": "AFRICA: Africa Cup of Nations U20 - Qualification",
  "country": "Africa",
  "league_url": "https://www.flashscore.com/football/africa/africa-cup-of-nations-u20/",
  "start_time": "2026-10-12T12:00:00+00:00",
  "status": "finished",
  "status_detail": "finished",
  "home_name": "Cameroon U20",
  "away_name": "Chad U20",
  "home_country": null,
  "away_country": null,
  "home_score": 3,
  "away_score": 0,
  "period_scores": [
    [
      0,
      0
    ]
  ],
  "winner": "home",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-16T13:13:27+00:00"
}
```json
{ "sports": ["tennis"], "status": "finished", "maxItems": 50 }
````

Each dataset item is one match with the fields listed under "What you get". Days are UTC.

# Actor input Schema

## `sports` (type: `array`):

Sports to scrape. Example: football, tennis, basketball.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

First day, YYYY-MM-DD (UTC). Flashscore keeps 7 days back and 7 days ahead. Empty means yesterday.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Last day, YYYY-MM-DD (UTC). Empty means today.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Keep only matches with this status.

## `leagueFilter` (type: `array`):

Keep only competitions whose name contains one of these words, case-insensitive. Example: premier league, nba, atp.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many matches in total.

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

Fallback proxy. Each feed is first fetched directly; if that fails twice, 2 more attempts go through this proxy, each from a different IP.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sports": [
    "football"
  ],
  "status": "all",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Matches with league, status, score and period scores.

# 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 = {
    "sports": [
        "football"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper").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 = {
    "sports": ["football"],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper").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 '{
  "sports": [
    "football"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,distinct_readjustment/flashscore-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/LEcUzyZ9hs4jmTtGl/builds/JgjCxXhClmSLNtUaR/openapi.json