ESPN Scraper — Live Sports Scores, Stats & Odds API | $1/1k
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Scrape ESPN box scores and player stats, scores, fixtures, betting odds, teams and standings for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and top soccer leagues. One row per player per game; odds and win probability for upcoming games. No API key needed. Export to CSV, JSON or Excel.
All notable changes to ESPN Sports Scraper are recorded here. The newest release is first.
eventName and shortName doubled a team's name when its city and nickname are the same word (the Athletics, playing without a home city in 2025-26): ESPN's own event name read "Houston Astros at Athletics Athletics" although homeTeam was the correct single "Athletics". Both fields are now built from homeTeam/awayTeam and their abbreviations instead of copying ESPN's own name field. Ordinary matchups are unchanged.resource: boxscores returns one row per player per finished game - NBA, WNBA and college basketball, NFL and college football, MLB, NHL and soccer - with team, opponent, home/away, position, jersey, starter and did-not-play flags, and the full stat line in stats (ESPN's stat names; numbers as numbers, made-attempted pairs such as "8-27" also split into two numbers). Where ESPN splits a box score into groups (NFL passing/rushing/receiving/..., MLB batting/pitching, NHL forwards/defenses/goalies) each group is its own row, named in statGroup. Games come from the same date day, range or year as the scoreboard: one extra request per finished game.resource: teamstats returns each team's box-score totals per finished game, with both final scores.eventIds input, and espn.com game pages or bare game ids in the URL list, read the box score of specific games.winProbability (off by default) adds ESPN's pre-game win probability for each side to upcoming games on the scoreboard, where ESPN publishes one (NFL, college football, MLB). One extra request per upcoming game; no extra rows or charges.not_found rows (a day with no games, a search with no match) now finishes successfully with the message "No results for this input" instead of failing. A run still fails when ESPN could not be read.date range (for example 20260101-20260131) returned only an error row. ESPN stopped answering ranges in one call on every league; a range is now fetched one day at a time (up to 400 days), and a day without games is one free not_found row as before. Scoreboard URLs with a range pasted into the URL list are split the same way.resource, league, date or season returned the built-in NFL team list instead of what was asked for, because the platform fills in the default ESPN API URL. Those fields now run on their own; URLs you set yourself are used as before. The default of resource is now teams, matching the example, so a run with no input is unchanged.First public release.
status, so a missing record (not_found) and a failure (error) are told apart from real data. Only ok rows are charged.