ESPN Sports Scraper — Scores, Teams, Standings & News

ESPN Sports Scraper pulls live and past scores, team directories, league standings and news headlines across NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, EPL, La Liga and many more — all as clean, structured JSON. Pick your leagues, choose a data type, and optionally set a date or date range for the scoreboard. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML. Fast and reliable, with no API key to set up. Made for sports analytics, betting models, fantasy tools and media dashboards.

What does the ESPN Scraper do?

Choose one or more leagues and a data type — scoreboard, teams, standings or news — and it returns every matching record as structured data. Set a date or date range to pull historical scoreboards, or leave it empty for today's games.

What data can you scrape from ESPN?

Data point	Description
Game	gameId, name, shortName, date, status, completed
Teams	homeTeam, awayTeam, competitors
Score	homeScore, awayScore
Venue	venue, city
Context	league, dataType
News	headlines, description, published, byline, url, image
Standings	wins, losses, win percentage, points for/against, streak, rank

What you get

Each scoreboard game is one clean dataset record. Export the full table to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

{
  "league": "nba",
  "dataType": "scoreboard",
  "gameId": "401585123",
  "name": "Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers",
  "shortName": "BOS @ LAL",
  "date": "2026-01-15T03:00Z",
  "status": "Final",
  "completed": true,
  "venue": "Crypto.com Arena",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "competitors": [
    { "team": "Los Angeles Lakers", "abbreviation": "LAL", "homeAway": "home", "score": 112, "winner": true, "record": "24-14" },
    { "team": "Boston Celtics", "abbreviation": "BOS", "homeAway": "away", "score": 108, "winner": false, "record": "30-9" }
  ],
  "homeTeam": "Los Angeles Lakers",
  "awayTeam": "Boston Celtics",
  "homeScore": 112,
  "awayScore": 108
}

Output schema

Fields below are for the scoreboard data type. The teams, standings and news data types return their own record shapes (team directories, standings metrics, and headline feeds respectively).

Field	Type	Description
league	string	League code the record belongs to (e.g. nba, epl).
dataType	string	Which data type produced the record (here, scoreboard).
gameId	string	ESPN's unique identifier for the game.
name	string	Full matchup name (e.g. "Boston Celtics at Los Angeles Lakers").
shortName	string	Abbreviated matchup (e.g. "BOS @ LAL").
date	string (ISO date)	Scheduled start time of the game.
status	string	Game status such as Scheduled, In Progress or Final.
completed	boolean	Whether the game has finished.
venue	string	Name of the stadium or arena.
city	string	City where the game is played.
competitors	array	Per-team detail: team name, abbreviation, home/away, score, winner and record.
homeTeam	string	Home team name.
awayTeam	string	Away team name.
homeScore	integer	Home team score.
awayScore	integer	Away team score.

Use cases

• Feed live and final scores into a betting or model pipeline.
• Build league standings tables for a sports site or app.
• Pull team directories with colors and logos for branding.
• Aggregate league news headlines for a media dashboard.
• Backfill historical scores for a sports analytics dataset.

How to scrape ESPN data

1. Add the ESPN Sports Scraper to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Choose one or more league codes under leagues.
3. Set dataType to scoreboard, teams, standings or news.
4. For scoreboards, set dates to a YYYYMMDD day or range, then click Run.
5. Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull them via the Apify API.

Input

{
  "leagues": ["nba", "epl"],
  "dataType": "scoreboard",
  "dates": "20260115"
}

Field	Description
leagues	League codes to scrape (e.g. nba, wnba, ncaab, nfl, ncaaf, mlb, nhl, epl, laliga, seriea, bundesliga, ligue1, ucl, mls, pga, f1, atp).
dataType	scoreboard, teams, standings, or news.
dates	Scoreboard date YYYYMMDD or YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD range; empty = today.

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FAQ

Do I need an ESPN account or API key? No. Just pick your leagues and data type and run — no login or API key.

Which leagues are supported? nba, wnba, ncaab, nfl, ncaaf, mlb, nhl, epl, laliga, seriea, bundesliga, ligue1, ucl, mls, pga, f1 and atp.

Can I scrape scores for a specific date? Yes. Set dates to a single YYYYMMDD day or a YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD range. Leave it empty for today's games.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus programmatic access through the Apify API.

How does billing work? You pay per item you get, so cost scales with the number of records you actually collect. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

Can I connect this to other tools? The ESPN Sports Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Is scraping ESPN legal? The scraper reads only publicly available scores, teams, standings and news. You are responsible for reviewing ESPN's terms for your use case.

Related Actors

• TVmaze Scraper
• Google News Scraper
• Google Trends Scraper

Notes

Original clean-room implementation. Reads only publicly available scores, teams, standings and news. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to ESPN, Inc. or its affiliates.