ESPN Sports Scraper — Scores, Teams, Standings & News

Pull 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. No API key. Made for sports analytics, betting models, fantasy tools, and media dashboards.

Features

• 🏆 17 leagues — nba, wnba, ncaab, nfl, ncaaf, mlb, nhl, epl, laliga, seriea, bundesliga, ligue1, ucl, mls, pga, f1, atp.
• 🗓️ Scoreboard by date — dates accepts a single YYYYMMDD or a YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD range; empty means today.
• 📊 Four data types — switch dataType between scoreboard, teams, standings, and news.
• ⚽ Detailed game rows — homeTeam, awayTeam, homeScore, awayScore, status, completed, plus a full competitors array.
• 🏟️ Venue context — each game includes venue and city.
• 📰 News feed — headlines with description, published, byline, url, and image.
• 🔢 Standings metrics — wins, losses, win percentage, points for/against, streak, and rank per team.

What you get

Each scoreboard game is one clean JSON record:

{
  "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
}

Input

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

Field	Description
leagues	League codes to scrape (e.g. nba, nfl, epl).
dataType	scoreboard, teams, standings, or news.
dates	Scoreboard date YYYYMMDD or range; empty = today.

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.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

Notes

This Actor uses ESPN's public data endpoints and reads only publicly available scores, teams, standings, and news. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ESPN, Inc. or its affiliates.