ESPN Sports Scraper — Scores, Games & Teams (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Soccer)

Scrape live scores, game results and full team directories from ESPN across the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college sports and soccer leagues worldwide — as clean, structured JSON. No API key. No login. No browser. Just fast, datacenter-friendly requests against ESPN's public data endpoints.

Perfect for sports apps, betting/odds data pipelines, stats dashboards and fan sites.

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What it does

Two modes, one simple input:

Mode	Returns
scoreboard	Every game for a sport/league today, with home/away teams, live or final scores, status and kickoff date
teams	The full team directory for a league (name, abbreviation, location, logo)

Point it at any ESPN sport + league combo and get back a flat, ready-to-use JSON array.

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Example input

{
  "mode": "scoreboard",
  "sport": "football",
  "league": "nfl",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Get all NFL teams instead:

{
  "mode": "teams",
  "sport": "football",
  "league": "nfl"
}

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Common sport / league combos

Sport	League slug	Competition
football	nfl	NFL
football	college-football	NCAA Football
basketball	nba	NBA
basketball	wnba	WNBA
basketball	mens-college-basketball	NCAA Basketball
baseball	mlb	MLB
hockey	nhl	NHL
soccer	eng.1	Premier League
soccer	esp.1	La Liga
soccer	ita.1	Serie A
soccer	ger.1	Bundesliga
soccer	uefa.champions	Champions League

Off-season? A league with no games scheduled that day returns an empty scoreboard — the actor tells you clearly and suggests trying another league (e.g. basketball/nba).

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Example output — scoreboard

{
  "type": "game",
  "id": "401872656",
  "name": "New England Patriots at Seattle Seahawks",
  "date": "2026-09-10T00:20Z",
  "state": "post",
  "status_detail": "Final",
  "completed": true,
  "home_team": "Seattle Seahawks",
  "home_score": 24,
  "away_team": "New England Patriots",
  "away_score": 17,
  "league": "nfl",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-04T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Example output — teams

{
  "type": "team",
  "id": "22",
  "name": "Arizona Cardinals",
  "abbreviation": "ARI",
  "location": "Arizona",
  "logo": "https://a.espncdn.com/i/teamlogos/nfl/500/ari.png",
  "league": "nfl",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-04T12:00:00+00:00"
}

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Use cases

• Sports apps — power a live-scores screen or push notifications with fresh game data.
• Betting & odds data — a reliable base feed of fixtures, states and final scores for models and settlement.
• Stats & analytics — build historical datasets of results across multiple leagues.
• Fan sites & content — auto-update scoreboards, standings widgets and team pages.

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Pricing & cost

Roughly $1 per 1,000 items (games or teams) on top of Apify platform usage — plus a small per-run cost for input/output JSON. A single NFL scoreboard run (~16 games) or a teams run (32 teams) costs a fraction of a cent in items. Runs are fast and lightweight (512 MB).

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Why this actor?

• No API key, no rate-limit paperwork — uses ESPN's public JSON endpoints.
• Datacenter-proxy friendly — no residential proxy required, keeping costs low.
• Clean, flat JSON — every field typed and nullable; no nested spelunking.
• Multi-sport in one actor — NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college, soccer and more, just by changing two fields.

Comparison

	This actor	Official ESPN API	Generic HTML scrapers
API key required	No	Deprecated / gated	No
Structured JSON	Yes	Partial	No (fragile HTML)
Multi-league	Yes	Varies	Rarely
Proxy cost	Low (datacenter)	—	High (residential)

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Support

Questions, a league combo that isn't working, or a field you'd like added? Open an issue on the actor's Apify page and we'll respond quickly.

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