MLB Baseball Stats Scraper ⚾

Scrape MLB teams, daily schedules with live scores, and season standings straight from the official MLB StatsAPI — clean structured JSON, no API key, and datacenter-proxy friendly (runs cheap, no residential proxy needed).

Built for sports apps, betting models, fantasy baseball tools, and stats dashboards that need reliable Major League Baseball data without touching a flaky HTML page or paying for a gated API.

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What it does

Pick a mode and go:

Mode	Returns	Input used
teams	Every current MLB club (30 teams)	—
schedule	All games for a date, with scores + status	date (YYYY-MM-DD)
standings	Division standings for a season	season (YYYY)

Data comes from statsapi.mlb.com — the same clean JSON feed that powers official scoreboards.

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Example output

Teams (mode: teams)

{
  "type": "team",
  "id": 147,
  "name": "New York Yankees",
  "abbreviation": "NYY",
  "location": "Bronx",
  "league": "American League",
  "division": "American League East",
  "venue": "Yankee Stadium",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Schedule (mode: schedule, date: 2024-07-04)

{
  "type": "game",
  "game_pk": 744834,
  "date": "2024-07-04T15:05:00Z",
  "status": "Final",
  "home_team": "Washington Nationals",
  "home_score": 1,
  "away_team": "New York Mets",
  "away_score": 0,
  "venue": "Nationals Park",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Standings (mode: standings, season: 2024)

{
  "type": "standing",
  "team": "Yankees",
  "wins": 94,
  "losses": 68,
  "win_pct": 0.58,
  "games_back": "-",
  "division_rank": "1",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	select	teams	teams, schedule, or standings
date	string	2024-07-04	YYYY-MM-DD, used in schedule mode
season	string	2024	Four-digit year, used in standings mode
maxItems	integer	500	Cap on records pushed (max 2000)

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Pricing

Runs on 512 MB and finishes in seconds. Expect roughly ~$1 per 1,000 records on the Apify platform (usage-based) — a single teams or standings pull is a fraction of a cent. No proxy costs because the endpoint is datacenter-friendly.

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Why this scraper

• No API key, no signup — point and run.
• Clean JSON in, clean JSON out — no HTML parsing to break on redesigns.
• Chrome-124 fingerprint via curl_cffi, with a stdlib urllib fallback for maximum reliability.
• Fail-loud — a mode that returns zero rows aborts the run instead of silently shipping empty data.
• Nullable schema — every field is optional, so partial upstream data never crashes your pipeline.

Comparison

	This actor	Official API direct	Generic HTML scrapers
API key required	❌ No	✅ Yes (rate-limited)	❌ No
Structured, flattened output	✅	⚠️ Deeply nested	⚠️ Fragile
Proxy needed	❌ Datacenter OK	—	✅ Often residential
Scores + standings + teams in one	✅	⚠️ Multiple calls	❌

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Related actors

• NHL Stats Scraper
• ESPN Sports Scraper
• F1 Scraper
• Sports Scraper

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Keywords: MLB scraper, baseball stats API, MLB schedule scraper, MLB standings scraper, baseball scores API, MLB teams data, sports data scraper, fantasy baseball data, sports betting data, MLB StatsAPI