# Sports Injury Reports API (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) (`ichigowa/sports-injury-reports`) Actor

Player injury reports for NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL as clean normalized JSON from ESPN's public API. One row per injury with athlete, team, status, injury type and analyst comments. No API key needed. Unofficial, not affiliated with ESPN.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ichigowa/sports-injury-reports.md
- **Developed by:** [kyle herman](https://apify.com/ichigowa) (community)
- **Categories:** Sports, News
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.10 / 1,000 injury rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Sports Injury Reports API (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL)

**The easy sports injury API** — get up-to-date player injury reports for the
NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL as clean, normalized JSON. Powered by ESPN's public
injuries feed. No API key, no scraping headaches, no HTML parsing.

Perfect if you searched for an **NFL injury report API**, **NBA injuries API**,
**MLB injured list API**, **NHL injury API**, or a general **ESPN injuries
API** and just want structured data.

### What you get

One dataset row **per player injury**, with the team, athlete, position,
status, injury type, timestamps and ESPN analyst commentary:

- Full league coverage: all NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL teams with injury data
- Player status: `Active`, `Out`, `Day-To-Day`, `Questionable`, `Injured Reserve`, `10/15/60-Day-IL`, `Suspension`, and more
- Short + long analyst comments (great for fantasy tools, betting models, news bots)
- Normalized UTC timestamps

### Input

All fields are optional — running with an empty input `{}` fetches all four
leagues with no status filter.

```json
{
  "leagues": ["nfl", "nba", "mlb", "nhl"],
  "statusFilter": "all"
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `leagues` | array | `["nfl", "nba", "mlb", "nhl"]` | League codes to fetch. Supported: `nfl`, `nba`, `mlb`, `nhl`. |
| `statusFilter` | string | `"all"` | One of `all`, `active`, `out`, `day-to-day`, `questionable`. Matched case-insensitively. Uncommon statuses (e.g. `60-Day-IL`, `Suspension`) are included only under `all`. |

### Output

One row per injury. Real example row from a live run:

```json
{
  "league": "nfl",
  "team_id": "22",
  "team": "Arizona Cardinals",
  "athlete": "Kitan Crawford",
  "athlete_short": "K. Crawford",
  "position": "S",
  "status": "Active",
  "injury_type": "active",
  "date_utc": "2026-08-06T02:58:00Z",
  "short_comment": "Crawford (ankle) is participating in Arizona's training camp, Josh Weinfuss of ESPN reports.",
  "long_comment": "Crawford is now fully recovered from the ankle injury that landed him on the Cardinals' injured reserve in January. The 24-year-old is expected to serve as the team's backup strong safety behind Budda Baker during the upcoming campaign.",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T13:13:43.065037Z"
}
```

Field reference:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `league` | League code (`nfl`, `nba`, `mlb`, `nhl`) |
| `team_id` | ESPN team ID |
| `team` | Team display name |
| `athlete` | Player full name |
| `athlete_short` | Player short name (e.g. `K. Crawford`) |
| `position` | Position abbreviation (e.g. `S`, `QB`), empty if unknown |
| `status` | Player status (e.g. `Active`, `Out`, `Day-To-Day`, `Questionable`, `60-Day-IL`) |
| `injury_type` | Injury type description (e.g. `day-to-day`, `Injured Reserve`, `60-day IL`) |
| `date_utc` | When the report item was last updated (ISO 8601 UTC) |
| `short_comment` | One-line analyst note |
| `long_comment` | Full analyst commentary |
| `fetched_at` | When this Actor fetched the data (ISO 8601 UTC) |

### Usage ideas

- Fantasy sports lineup tools and start/sit alerts
- Sports betting models that need injury context
- Discord/Slack/Telegram injury news bots
- Daily injury digests and dashboards

### Pricing

Pay per event: you are charged a tiny amount **per injury row** pushed to the
dataset. A typical all-league run returns roughly 1,000–1,500 rows in-season.
Use `leagues` and `statusFilter` to fetch only what you need.

### Notes

- Data source: ESPN's public site API. **Unofficial; this Actor is not
  affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ESPN.**
- Injury feeds update throughout the day; schedule the Actor (e.g. hourly)
  for fresh data.
- If a league returns no data (rare, e.g. deep offseason), the run still
  succeeds and other leagues are unaffected.

# Actor input Schema

## `leagues` (type: `array`):

League codes to fetch injury reports for. Supported: nfl, nba, mlb, nhl.

## `statusFilter` (type: `string`):

Only return injuries with this player status (matched case-insensitively). 'all' returns everything, including any uncommon statuses.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "leagues": [
    "nfl",
    "nba",
    "mlb",
    "nhl"
  ],
  "statusFilter": "all"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "leagues": [
        "nfl",
        "nba",
        "mlb",
        "nhl"
    ],
    "statusFilter": "all"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ichigowa/sports-injury-reports").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "leagues": [
        "nfl",
        "nba",
        "mlb",
        "nhl",
    ],
    "statusFilter": "all",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ichigowa/sports-injury-reports").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "leagues": [
    "nfl",
    "nba",
    "mlb",
    "nhl"
  ],
  "statusFilter": "all"
}' |
apify call ichigowa/sports-injury-reports --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ichigowa/sports-injury-reports"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mOoxDHQbcdmslFBbH/builds/Et9PHMr16qXYhzeH6/openapi.json