⚾ ESPN MLB Scoreboard Public API Scraper

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

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 13 fields per record · Every MLB season · Regular, postseason, spring · Live scores, venues, probables

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 · regular, postseason, spring · live scores, venues, probables. Each row carries the most useful identifiers, names, scores, and timestamps the upstream feed exposes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
⚾ MLB analysts	Mine schedule and result data
📊 DFS players	Track probables and matchups
📰 Sports journalists	Live game cards in one fetch
🌦️ Weather analysts	Correlate games with weather
🤖 ML engineers	Train run-line models
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror the ESPN MLB scoreboard

📋 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.

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

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
season	string	No	See examples below.
maxItems	integer	No	Free users 10, paid up to 1,000,000. Prefill is 10.

Example 1, Today on ESPN MLB.

{ "maxItems": 20 }

Example 2, Specific date.

{ "dates": "20240715", "maxItems": 20 }

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

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 gameId	string	ESPN event id.
⚾ name	string	Event name.
📅 date	string	First pitch time.
🏠 homeTeam	string	Home team name.
✈️ awayTeam	string	Away team name.
🔢 homeScore	number	Home score.
🔢 awayScore	number	Away score.
🟢 status	string	Game status.
🏟️ venue	string	Venue name.
📺 broadcast	string	Broadcast network.
🌦️ weather	string	Weather summary when present.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When fetched.
❌ error	string	Set when upstream returned an error.

Sample record.

{
  "gameId": "",
  "name": "",
  "date": "",
  "homeTeam": "",
  "awayTeam": "",
  "homeScore": 0,
  "awayScore": 0,
  "status": "",
  "venue": "",
  "broadcast": "",
  "weather": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public ESPN MLB Scoreboard endpoint, no scraping tricks needed. | | 🧹 | Flattens nested upstream payloads into one row per record. | | 🔢 | Casts numeric fields cleanly for spreadsheet imports. | | 🛟 | Surfaces upstream errors as clean rows. | | 🔌 | Filters exposed for the most common slicing needs. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for spreadsheet, warehouse, or webhook export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Pagination	Flattening	Export formats
Raw curl	5 min	manual	none	manual
DIY Python script	30 min	yes	partial	code
This Actor	5 seconds	yes	yes	7 formats

🚀 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.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics. Mirror ESPN MLB Scoreboard into a warehouse for dashboards.

🏢 Internal tooling. Mirror the data into private apps without writing client code.

📰 Journalism. Verify and bulk-fetch records for stories.

🤖 Machine learning. Build training sets from a known canonical source.

🔌 Automating ESPN MLB Scoreboard Public API Scraper

• Make / Zapier: schedule a daily run.
• Cron schedule: native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks: POST on completion.
• Warehouse pipe: native integrations move datasets straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach API integration with a clean dataset.

🧪 Personal research. Track the data you care about.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Power public dashboards.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Spin up a feed for side projects in seconds.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to design a pipeline. The input fields, schema, and examples above contain everything an LLM needs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No. The endpoint is public.

❓ Pagination? Yes, handled automatically where the upstream supports it.

❓ Rate limits? The upstream sets the rate limit. The actor surfaces upstream errors cleanly.

❓ Schema stability? Core fields are stable. Optional fields are passed through when present.

❓ Real-time? Yes, every run hits the live endpoint.

❓ Spreadsheet export? Yes, via the Apify dataset UI.

❓ Scheduling? Yes, via the Apify scheduler.

❓ Public data only? Yes.

❓ Free trial? Yes, $5 free credit on signup covers many runs.

❓ Webhook integration? Yes, native Apify webhooks fire on run completion.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint. Trigger runs from a calendar event, a form submission, a cron job, or pipe results straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or a Postgres warehouse.

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