Sports Betting Odds Scraper

Sports Betting Odds Scraper extracts sportsbook lines per game from ESPN's public betting feed (the DraftKings odds shown on espn.com): point spread, total (over/under) and moneyline for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football and basketball, MLS, the Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League, Liga MX and UFC fights. Every row is one game x one sportsbook, flat and typed: current, opening and closing lines in American and decimal odds, the favourite, kick-off time, teams and records, live or final scores, and for finished games whether the favourite covered and whether the total went over. Plain HTTP against ESPN's JSON API: no browser, no login, no proxy, no DraftKings scraping (their site blocks bots; ESPN republishes the lines).

What you get

Field	Example
league, leagueName, sport, season, seasonType, week	nfl, National Football League, football, 2026, Regular Season, 7
eventId, competitionId, eventName, shortName, startTime, espnUrl	401873010, New England Patriots at Chicago Bears, NE @ CHI, 2026-10-23T00:15:00.000Z
status, statusDetail, completed	pre / in / post, Scheduled / Final / Final/OT
homeTeam, homeTeamAbbr, homeTeamId, homeRecord, awayTeam, …	Chicago Bears, CHI, 3, 4-2 (fighters for UFC)
homeScore, awayScore, winner	121, 113, home (null before the game)
venue, venueCity, venueCountry, neutralSite, broadcast	Soldier Field, Chicago, USA, false, Prime Video
provider, providerId, details, favorite, favoriteTeam	DraftKings, 100, "CHI -3", home, Chicago Bears
homeSpread, awaySpread, homeSpreadOdds, awaySpreadOdds (+ …Decimal)	-3, 3, -102, -118 (run line for MLB, puck line for NHL, goal line for soccer)
total, overOdds, underOdds (+ …Decimal)	50.5, -115, -105 (rounds for UFC)
homeMoneyline, awayMoneyline, drawMoneyline (+ …Decimal)	-155, +130, +250 (draw only for soccer)
openHomeSpread, openHomeSpreadOdds, openAwaySpreadOdds, openTotal, openOverOdds, openUnderOdds, openHomeMoneyline, openAwayMoneyline	the line when the book opened it
closeHomeSpread, closeTotal, closeHomeMoneyline, closeAwayMoneyline, …	closing line of finished games (null while the game is upcoming)
spreadResult, totalResult, moneylineResult	home / away / push, over / under / push, home / away / draw
oddsSource, scrapedAt	core (ESPN odds API) or scoreboard (embedded line)

Sportsbooks: ESPN carries DraftKings for every league and adds Bet 365 (fractional 1X2 and goal line) on some European soccer matches. You get every book ESPN returns for the game; providers filters them.

Use cases

• Line shopping and alerts: schedule the Actor every hour for the leagues you follow and diff homeSpread / total / moneylines against the previous run.
• Closing line value (CLV): run with gameStates: ["post"] the morning after; closeHomeSpread, closeTotal and the closing moneylines are there together with the scores and spreadResult / totalResult.
• Models and backtests: build a daily table of opening vs. closing lines with results for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer or UFC without touching a sportsbook site.
• Content and apps: feed odds widgets, newsletters, Discord bots or AI agents with a clean JSON of today's games and their prices.

Input

{
    "leagues": ["nfl", "nba", "epl"],
    "customLeagues": ["soccer/ned.1"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-10-24",
    "dateTo": "2026-10-26",
    "gameStates": ["pre"],
    "providers": ["DraftKings"],
    "oddsSource": "core",
    "includeEventsWithoutOdds": false,
    "maxItems": 500
}

• leagues: pick from the list (nfl, ncaaf, nba, ncaab, mlb, nhl, mls, epl, laliga, bundesliga, seriea, ligue1, ucl, ligamx, ufc). customLeagues takes any other ESPN scoreboard as sport/league (soccer/por.1, soccer/uefa.europa, basketball/wnba…); lines exist where DraftKings prices the league.
• Dates are US Eastern game days. With no dates the Actor covers today plus days - 1 more days (default 3); NFL and college football without dates use ESPN's current week instead, so a Tuesday run already returns the coming weekend. dateFrom also accepts today, tomorrow or +2. Up to 31 days per run.
• gameStates: pre (upcoming), in (live), post (finished). Empty = all three.
• oddsSource: core (default) makes one request per game to ESPN's odds API and returns every sportsbook with opening, current and closing lines, also for finished games. scoreboard uses only the DraftKings line embedded in the scoreboard: no extra requests, upcoming games only.
• includeEventsWithoutOdds: save (and pay for) a row with empty odds fields for games that have no line yet, e.g. to get the schedule. Off by default.
• maxItems is exact and global; a game x book pair is saved and charged once even if it appears on two days.

Output example

One row from the default input (NFL week 7, DraftKings):

{
    "eventId": "401873010",
    "competitionId": "401873010",
    "league": "nfl",
    "leagueName": "National Football League",
    "leagueAbbr": "NFL",
    "sport": "football",
    "season": 2026,
    "seasonType": "Regular Season",
    "week": 7,
    "eventName": "New England Patriots at Chicago Bears",
    "shortName": "NE @ CHI",
    "competitionName": null,
    "startTime": "2026-10-23T00:15:00.000Z",
    "status": "pre",
    "statusDetail": "Scheduled",
    "completed": false,
    "neutralSite": false,
    "homeTeam": "Chicago Bears",
    "homeTeamAbbr": "CHI",
    "homeTeamId": "3",
    "homeRecord": "4-2",
    "awayTeam": "New England Patriots",
    "awayTeamAbbr": "NE",
    "awayTeamId": "17",
    "awayRecord": "4-2",
    "homeScore": null,
    "awayScore": null,
    "winner": null,
    "venue": "Soldier Field",
    "venueCity": "Chicago",
    "venueCountry": "USA",
    "broadcast": "Prime Video",
    "espnUrl": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401873010/patriots-bears",
    "provider": "DraftKings",
    "providerId": "100",
    "details": "CHI -3",
    "favorite": "home",
    "favoriteTeam": "Chicago Bears",
    "homeSpread": -3,
    "awaySpread": 3,
    "homeSpreadOdds": -102,
    "awaySpreadOdds": -118,
    "homeSpreadOddsDecimal": 1.98,
    "awaySpreadOddsDecimal": 1.84,
    "total": 50.5,
    "overOdds": -115,
    "underOdds": -105,
    "overOddsDecimal": 1.86,
    "underOddsDecimal": 1.95,
    "homeMoneyline": -155,
    "awayMoneyline": 130,
    "drawMoneyline": null,
    "homeMoneylineDecimal": 1.64,
    "awayMoneylineDecimal": 2.3,
    "drawMoneylineDecimal": null,
    "openHomeSpread": -1.5,
    "openHomeSpreadOdds": -105,
    "openAwaySpreadOdds": -115,
    "openTotal": 47.5,
    "openOverOdds": -110,
    "openUnderOdds": -110,
    "openHomeMoneyline": -120,
    "openAwayMoneyline": 100,
    "closeHomeSpread": null,
    "closeHomeSpreadOdds": null,
    "closeAwaySpreadOdds": null,
    "closeTotal": null,
    "closeOverOdds": null,
    "closeUnderOdds": null,
    "closeHomeMoneyline": null,
    "closeAwayMoneyline": null,
    "spreadResult": null,
    "totalResult": null,
    "moneylineResult": null,
    "oddsSource": "core",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T12:40:02.118Z"
}

For a finished game the same row carries homeScore / awayScore, winner, the close… lines and spreadResult / totalResult / moneylineResult. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists games found, games with lines and rows saved per league, the requests made and any ESPN error.

Pricing

Pay per event: one odds-row event per row saved. See the Pricing tab for current prices; paid Apify plans get lower rates. The Actor makes one small JSON request per game, no browser, no proxy.

Games without a line are not charged unless you turn includeEventsWithoutOdds on.

How it compares

• Scraping DraftKings, FanDuel or other sportsbooks directly: their sites sit behind Akamai / Cloudflare and need residential proxies or browsers, so those Actors break often. ESPN republishes the DraftKings line for every major league in a stable JSON API, with opening and closing numbers you do not get from a live sportsbook page.
• Odds aggregators' APIs: they cover more books. This Actor is pay-per-event and includes scores and results in the same row.
• ESPN score scrapers: they return games and scores; this Actor is built around the odds: every sportsbook ESPN lists, open / current / close, favourite, results and decimal odds, one flat row per book.

What it does not do: player props, futures, live in-play odds updates faster than you schedule it, or books ESPN does not carry.

Integrations

Run it on a schedule and send the dataset anywhere: Apify API (/v2/datasets/{id}/items?format=csv), webhooks, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n, Airbyte, or call it from LangChain / LlamaIndex / an MCP client as a tool for AI agents ("what are tonight's NBA lines?").

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads the public JSON API behind espn.com's scoreboards, without login or circumvention, and stores only game and price data: team names, public records, scores and sportsbook numbers. No personal data is collected. Betting itself is subject to your local laws; this is data, not a betting service.

Do I need a proxy? No. ESPN's API accepts direct connections. If the platform's IP is ever refused, the Actor retries with other browser header profiles and then with Apify Proxy (datacenter) on its own; you can also set proxyConfiguration.

Why does a game have no row? Lines appear when DraftKings prices the game, usually a few days before game day (college basketball and far-future dates often have none yet), and ESPN drops the embedded scoreboard line once a game is over: for finished games use the default oddsSource: "core", which still returns the closing line. Turn on includeEventsWithoutOdds to get the schedule anyway.

Which sportsbooks? Whatever ESPN returns: DraftKings for every league, and Bet 365 on some European soccer matches (1X2, draw and goal line). The Actor does not fetch other books on its own.

How fresh are the lines? Live from ESPN at run time; schedule the Actor as often as you need. open… fields are the opening numbers, close… the closing numbers of finished games.

What are the limits? Up to 31 days per run; maxItems is the only cap on rows. ESPN scoreboards list a league's games per US Eastern day (NFL and college football per week).

Changelog

• 0.1 (October 2026): first release. 15 leagues plus custom ESPN paths, date ranges, game-state and sportsbook filters, core odds API with scoreboard fallback, opening / current / closing lines in American and decimal odds, scores and spread / total / moneyline results, exact maxItems, pay-per-row pricing.

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En español

Sports Betting Odds Scraper extrae las cuotas de apuestas por partido desde la API pública de ESPN (las líneas de DraftKings que muestra espn.com): hándicap (spread), total (over/under) y moneyline para NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, fútbol americano y baloncesto universitario, MLS, Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Champions League, Liga MX y peleas de UFC. Cada fila es un partido por casa de apuestas, plana y tipada: línea actual, de apertura y de cierre en cuotas americanas y decimales, favorito, hora de inicio, equipos y récords, marcador en vivo o final y, para partidos terminados, quién cubrió el hándicap y si el total fue over o under. Filtros por liga, fechas (hasta 31 días), estado del partido y casa de apuestas. Sin navegador, sin login y sin proxy: ESPN republica las líneas, así que no hace falta raspar DraftKings (que bloquea bots). Consulta la pestaña Pricing para ver los precios vigentes; los planes de pago de Apify tienen tarifas más bajas.