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ESPN MLB Scoreboard Scraper

ESPN MLB Scoreboard Scraper

Fetch Major League Baseball games from the ESPN scoreboard endpoint by season year or a specific YYYYMMDD date. Returns matchups, scores, and team info as ESPN serves them. Great for daily score tickers, fantasy baseball aides, and analytics models tracking the MLB season.

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⚾ ESPN MLB Scoreboard Public API Scraper

πŸš€ Export every MLB game on the ESPN scoreboard with inning, scores, status, venue, and weather, straight from the public ESPN site API.

The ESPN MLB Scoreboard Public API Scraper turns the site.api.espn.com public endpoint into a clean dataset. It calls the public API with whichever filters you supply, then flattens each record into one row.

Coverage spans every mlb season Β· regular, postseason, spring Β· live scores, venues, probables. Each row carries the most useful identifiers, names, scores, and timestamps the upstream feed exposes.

🎯 Target AudienceπŸ’‘ Primary Use Cases
⚾ MLB analystsMine schedule and result data
πŸ“Š DFS playersTrack probables and matchups
πŸ“° Sports journalistsLive game cards in one fetch
🌦️ Weather analystsCorrelate games with weather
πŸ€– ML engineersTrain run-line models
πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» DevelopersMirror the ESPN MLB scoreboard

πŸ“‹ What the ESPN MLB Scoreboard Public API Scraper does

  • Calls the ESPN MLB scoreboard endpoint for the chosen date or season.
  • Flattens nested competitions and competitors into top-level fields.
  • Exposes home and away score, status, venue, broadcast, and probables when present.
  • Casts numeric ids cleanly.
  • Surfaces upstream errors as a clean error record.

πŸ’‘ Why it matters. The ESPN MLB scoreboard JSON is dense and deeply nested. This actor flattens it to one row per game.

πŸ“Š Data fields

Each record includes: awayScore, awayTeam, broadcast, date, gameId, homeScore, homeTeam, name, results, scrapedAt, status, venue, weather. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know. The ESPN site API is public and unauthenticated.

πŸš€ How to use

  1. Click Try for free.
  2. Pick your filters from the schema above.
  3. Click Start. Your dataset is ready in seconds.
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