MLB Search Results Scraper 🎯⚾

Features ✨

• Scrapes video search results from MLB.com official website
• Supports custom search queries
• Handles pagination automatically
• Built-in stealth and anti-detection mechanisms
• Random delays and user agent rotation
• Efficient data collection with request interception

Use Cases 🎯

• Sports content analysis
• Baseball video content aggregation
• Player highlights collection
• Sports media research
• Content curation for baseball fans

Input Parameters 📝

Field	Type	Description
searchUrls	Array	List of MLB.com search URLs to scrape
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of items to collect (optional)

Output Format 📊

The actor outputs detailed information about each video result, including:

• Title
• Description
• Video URL
• Thumbnail
• Publication date
• Duration
• View count
• Related metadata

Usage Tips 💡

1. Use specific search terms in the URL for targeted results
2. Adjust maxItems based on your data needs
3. Monitor the run console for real-time progress
4. Results are saved in structured JSON format

Limitations ⚠️

• Respects MLB.com's terms of service
• Rate limiting and random delays implemented
• Maximum recommended items per run: 1000

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "searchUrls": ["https://www.mlb.com/search?q=abbott&filter=video"],
3    "maxItems": 60
4}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"title": "Buck Farmer against the Pirates",
4		"url": "https://www.mlb.com/video/andrew-abbott-against-the-pirates",
5		"lastUpdatedDate": 1724436651130,
6		"contentDate": 1724365845126,
7		"teamCode": null,
8		"teamFileCode": [],
9		"teamName": [],
10		"playerName": [
11			"Andrew Abbott"
12		],
13		"homeTeamCode": "pit",
14		"awayTeamCode": "cin",
15		"gameDateTime": "2024-08-23T22:40:00Z",
16		"gamePk": "745460",
17		"gameTitle": "2024/08/23 cin@pit",
18		"taxonomy": [
19			"data-visualization"
20		],
21		"contentType": "video",
22		"entityId": "4200e904-b772-4320-8133-9ebfb31e57e5",
23		"culture": "en-us",
24		"thumbnailUrl": "https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/w_250,h_250,c_thumb,g_auto,q_auto,f_jpg/mlb/bs3daoifxlnpg7kpd1ww",
25		"templateUrl": "https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/bs3daoifxlnpg7kpd1ww",
26		"playerId": [
27			671096
28		],
29		"description": "Hits against Farmer in their last three matchups",
30		"blurb": "Buck Farmer against the Pirates",
31		"duration": "00:00:11",
32		"objectID": "b693e544-d0bf-4fb0-8e1d-d44efda99106"
33	},
34    ...
35]