FGC Tabletop Tournament Scraper - start.gg & Liquipedia

Aggregate fighting game (FGC), Smash, and tabletop tournament results from start.gg and Liquipedia. Returns tournament name, game/format, dates, country, prize pool, entrant count, placement, player handle, and winnings — ideal for sponsorship scouting, community analytics, and tournament-organiser benchmarking.

What does it do?

This actor pulls structured tournament data from two sources:

• start.gg — Uses the GraphQL API to fetch tournament listings and top standings for any videogame. Requires a free API token from start.gg/admin/profile/developer. Supports SF6, Tekken 8, Tekken 7, Smash Ultimate, Melee, KoF XV, Guilty Gear: Strive, and more.
• Liquipedia — Uses the MediaWiki API (no token required) on the fighters and smash sub-wikis. Parses tournament infoboxes to extract metadata including name, organizer, prize pool, participant count, city, and country.

tabletop.tools is listed as a future source but is currently Cloudflare-protected without JavaScript and is gracefully skipped with a warning.

Use cases

• Sponsorship scouting — track prize pools, entrant counts, and top players across the FGC circuit
• Community analytics — monitor event activity by game, region, or organizer over time
• Tournament-organiser benchmarking — compare your event's participation and prize pool against comparable events
• Player tracking — follow a handle's tournament results and placements across games

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
sources	string[]	No	Data sources: startgg, liquipedia. Defaults to ["liquipedia"].
games	string[]	No	Game slugs (see table below). Defaults to ["sf6", "tekken8"].
dateFrom	string	No	Filter start on or after (YYYY-MM-DD).
dateTo	string	No	Filter start on or before (YYYY-MM-DD).
onlineOnly	boolean	No	Only return online events. Defaults to false.
startggApiToken	string	For startgg source	Free token from start.gg/admin/profile/developer.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum records to return. Defaults to 200.

Output

{
  "source": "liquipedia",
  "tournament_id": "61129",
  "tournament_name": "NorCal Knockout: Round Two",
  "game_or_format": "sf6",
  "start_date": "2026-05-16",
  "city": "Redding, CA",
  "country": "United States",
  "is_online": false,
  "prize_pool_usd": 2110,
  "participant_count": 111,
  "placement": null,
  "player_handle": null,
  "sponsor": "Redding FGC",
  "source_url": "https://liquipedia.net/fighters/NorCal_Knockout%2F2026%2FSF6"
}

When using the startgg source with a valid API token, records also include placement, player_handle, country_player, and team_name.

Getting a start.gg API token

1. Sign in at start.gg
2. Go to Settings → Developer → API Token
3. Create a new token (free, no credit card required)
4. Paste it into the startggApiToken field

Supported games

Slug	Game	start.gg	Liquipedia
sf6	Street Fighter 6	Yes	Yes
sf5	Street Fighter V	No	Yes
tekken8	Tekken 8	Yes	Yes
tekken7	Tekken 7	Yes	Yes
melee	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Yes	Yes
ultimate	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Yes	Yes
kof	KoF XV	Yes	Yes
guilty_gear	Guilty Gear: Strive	Yes	Yes

Rate limits

• start.gg: 1,000 requests/minute (free tier). This actor uses conservative pagination.
• Liquipedia: Fair-use policy (~30 s/req max). This actor uses a 1.5-second delay between page fetches, well within documented limits.