🏈 College Football Recruiting Rankings Scraper: Cross-Source Ratings & NIL

Get every recruit's On3, 247Sports, ESPN, and Rivals rating side by side, ready for your spreadsheet in under 60 seconds. Live On3 college football recruiting rankings with real NIL valuations and a computed rating agreement spread showing exactly where scouts disagree.

🔀 Cross-source ratings See On3, 247Sports, ESPN, and Rivals rate the same recruit, side by side, with the gap between them scored.

💰 Real NIL valuations Published NIL dollar estimates included when On3 has them, never left blank as a stand-in for missing data.

🎯 Structured filters Narrow by state, position, star tier, commitment status, or recruiting interest before you ever open a spreadsheet.

🆕 Ranking movement feed Schedule runs to catch new entrants, rating changes, and commits or decommits automatically.

Pull structured college football recruiting data straight from On3, the only rankings page online that reconciles ratings from multiple scouting services on the same row. Set a class year and a handful of filters, run the actor, and get a clean dataset of recruits with rank, star rating, NIL valuation, commitment status, and a full cross-source rating breakdown.

🔍 What does this actor do?

This actor scrapes On3's college football recruiting rankings for any class year from 2020 to 2032. Each recruit record includes name, position, height, weight, hometown, high school, and state, plus On3's own national, position, and state rank and star rating.

What sets this actor apart is the per-source rating breakdown. On3's own ranking page independently lists how On3 Industry, On3 Consensus, 247Sports, ESPN, and Rivals each rate the same player, with each source's own stars, numeric rating, and national/position/state rank. This actor extracts all of it into one row per recruit, plus a computed rating agreement spread showing how far apart the sources land on a given player. One important note on sourcing: Rivals.com itself is not fetched directly, its own site policy disallows AI crawlers. The Rivals ratings that appear in this dataset are the ones On3 already publishes on its own page, with attribution to the Rivals profile.

Commitment tracking covers commitment status, committed school, commitment date, and signed, enrolled, and transfer flags. NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) valuation is included in US dollars whenever On3 publishes one for that recruit, real numbers only, never a fabricated placeholder. On3's own "predicted schools" data is included too, clearly labeled as a prediction rather than a confirmed offer, since no source in scope publishes a verified list of school offers.

An optional monitoring mode compares each run against the previous one and flags recruits who are new to the rankings or whose rank, star rating, or committed school changed, so a scheduled run can double as a recruiting movement alert feed.

🎯 Who uses this

• I am a recruiting analyst covering signing day and I need to compare how On3, 247Sports, ESPN, and Rivals rate the same recruit without opening four separate tabs, so I can write with real cross-source context instead of quoting one service's opinion.
• I am part of an NIL collective evaluating recruits for valuation and negotiation, and I need real published NIL numbers alongside consensus star ratings in one dataset, not four sources scraped and merged by hand.
• I am a college football fan building my own recruiting tracker, and I want to see which recruits are trending up in the rankings and who just committed, without refreshing four different ranking sites every day.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Set your class year and filters Pick a recruiting class year (2020 to 2032) plus optional state, position, star tier, or commitment filters.

STEP 2 Run the actor On3's rankings are fetched and every recruit's cross-source ratings, NIL data, and commitment status are extracted.

STEP 3 Get your dataset Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or connect it to Sheets, Zapier, or Make.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
classYear	integer	No	The high school recruiting class to scrape, for example 2027 for the class currently being recruited. Defaults to 2027.
maxPages	integer	No	Upper bound on how many paginated ranking pages (50 recruits each) are fetched before stopping. Defaults to 20.
states	array of strings	No	Only include recruits whose high school state matches one of the selected two-letter state codes. Leave empty to include all states.
positions	enum	No	Only include recruits at one or more selected positions (QB, RB, WR, EDGE, CB, and the rest of the standard position list). Leave empty to include all positions.
minStars	integer	No	Only include recruits rated at least this many stars on On3's own star tier. 0 disables this filter.
committedSchool	string	No	Only include recruits whose committed program name or slug contains this text, for example "ohio-state". Case-insensitive. Leave blank to include all.
uncommittedOnly	boolean	No	Only include recruits who have not yet committed to a school. Defaults to false.
minInterestCount	integer	No	Only include recruits with at least this many programs shown as recruiting interest on On3. This reflects On3's tracked recruiting interest, not a confirmed list of school offers. Defaults to 0.
includeSourceRatings	boolean	No	Include the per-source rating breakdown (On3, 247Sports, ESPN, Rivals, Consensus) and the computed rating agreement spread for each recruit. Turn off only to shrink dataset size. Defaults to true.
includeNilValuation	boolean	No	Include On3's NIL valuation estimate in US dollars, when published for that recruit. Defaults to true.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of recruit records to output. Defaults to 50.
retries	integer	No	Number of retry attempts for a failed page fetch before giving up. Defaults to 8.
onlyNewOrChanged	boolean	No	Skip recruits whose national rank, star rating, and committed school are unchanged since the previous run under the same state key. Pair with a schedule to build a ranking movement feed. Defaults to false.
resetSeenBaseline	boolean	No	Clear the stored baseline for this state key before this run, so the next run's onlyNewOrChanged comparison starts fresh. Defaults to false.
stateKey	string	No	Namespace for the monitoring baseline, useful when running multiple watch configurations from the same actor. Defaults to college-recruiting-default.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. On3 requires the Unblocker proxy group to get past its anti-bot check; the default is already set correctly and should not be changed.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
player_key	string	Stable identifier for the recruit used to track changes across runs.
name	string	Recruit's full name.
position	string	Position abbreviation, for example QB, WR, EDGE.
class_year	number	Recruiting class year.
height_formatted	string	Height in feet and inches, for example 6'3".
height_inches	number	Height in total inches.
weight_lbs	number	Weight in pounds.
hometown	string	Recruit's hometown.
high_school	string	High school name.
state	string	Two-letter state code of the high school.
national_rank	number	On3's overall national rank for the class.
position_rank	number	On3's rank within the recruit's position group.
state_rank	number	On3's rank within the recruit's state.
stars	number	On3 Industry star rating (1 to 5).
rating_score	number	On3 Industry numeric rating score.
is_five_star_plus	boolean	True if the recruit is rated 5 stars.
is_committed	boolean	True if the recruit has committed to a school.
committed_school	string	Name or slug of the committed school, when applicable.
commitment_date	string	Date the recruit committed, when known.
is_signed	boolean	True if the recruit has signed a National Letter of Intent.
is_enrolled	boolean	True if the recruit has already enrolled.
is_transfer	boolean	True if the record reflects a transfer rather than a high school recruit.
nil_valuation_usd	number	On3's published NIL valuation estimate in US dollars, when available.
recruiting_interest_count	number	Count of programs On3 tracks as showing recruiting interest in this player.
predicted_schools	array	On3's own crystal-ball predictions for where the recruit will commit or sign. A prediction, not a confirmed offer or commitment.
source_ratings	array	Per-source rating breakdown: source name, stars, rating, national rank, position rank, state rank, and profile URL for On3 Industry, On3 Consensus, 247Sports, ESPN, and Rivals.
rating_agreement_spread	number	Computed spread showing how much the star ratings disagree across sources for this recruit.
profile_url	string	Link to the recruit's On3 profile page.
is_new	boolean	True if this recruit was not present in the previous monitored run (monitoring mode only).
is_changed	boolean	True if rank, star rating, or committed school changed since the previous monitored run (monitoring mode only).
scraped_at	string	Timestamp this record was scraped.
first_seen_at	string	Timestamp this recruit was first seen under the current state key (monitoring mode only).

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per result and is billed per recruit record successfully saved to your dataset. Empty runs cost nothing, and there are no fixed monthly subscriptions or hidden fees.

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❓ FAQ

Does it get blocked by On3's anti-bot protection?

On3.com runs a genuine bot-challenge check on every request. This actor routes through a proxy group built specifically to solve that kind of challenge, so runs get through reliably without you needing to configure anything.

Does it scrape Rivals.com directly?

No. Rivals' own site policy disallows AI crawlers, so this actor never fetches rivals.com. The Rivals star ratings that appear in the source_ratings field come from On3's own published ranking page, where On3 independently lists Rivals' rating for each recruit with attribution back to the Rivals profile.

How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches the live On3 recruiting rankings page at request time. There is no cached or delayed data involved. Pair the actor with a schedule and onlyNewOrChanged to get a running feed of rank, rating, and commitment changes.

Are all classes and positions supported?

Yes. Any recruiting class year from 2020 to 2032 is supported, and every standard football position from quarterback to long snapper can be filtered on individually or left unfiltered to pull the full board.

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