NHL Hockey Stats Scraper 🏒

Scrape live NHL standings, scores and the daily schedule straight from the official NHL public JSON API — no API key, no login, no browser. Fast, datacenter-friendly, and returns clean structured JSON ready for sports apps, betting models, fantasy tools and analytics dashboards.

Powered by api-web.nhle.com — the same data that feeds NHL.com. This actor flattens the nested, localized API into a tidy dataset you can pipe anywhere.

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✨ What you get

Mode	Endpoint	Records
standings	League standings, all 32 teams	1 row per team
schedule	Today's games / scoreboard	1 row per game

Every record is a flat JSON object with snake_case keys and a scraped_at UTC timestamp.

Standings output

{
  "type": "standing",
  "team": "Colorado Avalanche",
  "abbrev": "COL",
  "conference": "Western",
  "division": "Central",
  "games_played": 82,
  "wins": 55,
  "losses": 16,
  "ot_losses": 11,
  "points": 121,
  "point_pct": 0.737805,
  "goals_for": 302,
  "goals_against": 203,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Schedule / scores output

{
  "type": "game",
  "id": 2026020001,
  "date": "2026-09-29",
  "state": "FINAL",
  "home_team": "Hurricanes",
  "home_score": 4,
  "away_team": "Panthers",
  "away_score": 2,
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-16T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Off-season note: in schedule mode, if the NHL is between seasons or no games are scheduled today, the API returns no completed games. The actor fails loudly with a clear message so scheduled runs don't silently succeed with empty data.

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🔧 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select (standings / schedule)	standings	What to scrape
maxItems	integer (1–2000)	500	Cap on records pushed to the dataset

Example:

{ "mode": "standings", "maxItems": 500 }

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💸 Pricing

Roughly ~$1 per 1,000 runs on Apify's pay-per-result / compute model. A single standings pull is one lightweight HTTP request returning 32 teams — cheap enough to poll on a schedule (e.g. after every game night) without watching the meter.

🎯 Use cases

• Sports apps — power live standings tables and score tickers.
• Betting & odds models — feed goals-for/against, point pace and win rates into predictive models.
• Fantasy hockey — track team form, streaks and matchups.
• Stats & analytics — build historical datasets by scheduling daily snapshots.

⚖️ Comparison

	This actor	Manual NHL.com scraping	Paid stats APIs
API key	❌ none	❌ none	✅ required
Structured JSON	✅	❌ HTML parsing	✅
Cost	~$1 / 1k	free but fragile	$$$/month
Maintenance	✅ handled	❌ breaks on redesign	✅

🔗 Related actors

• MLB Stats Scraper
• ESPN Sports Scraper
• F1 Scraper
• Sports Scraper

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