🏆 ESPN Standings & Scoreboard Scraper

🚀 Export live NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and MLS standings and scores from ESPN in seconds. No API key required. Just pick a league and download.

Pull real-time standings tables and scoreboard data directly from ESPN's public API. Whether you need win-loss records, winning percentages, point differentials, or current streaks, this Actor delivers clean structured data for every team in the league.

Data comes straight from ESPN's internal API, the same source powering ESPN.com, so you always get the most current standings without scraping HTML. Coverage spans 5 major North American sports leagues: NFL (32 teams), NBA (30 teams), MLB (30 teams), NHL (32 teams), and MLS (29+ teams).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sports analysts, fantasy managers, sports journalists, betting researchers, app developers, data scientists	Standings dashboards, fantasy team monitoring, automated articles, predictive modeling, sports apps, team performance analysis

📋 What the ESPN Standings Scraper does

• 🏈 Five major leagues. NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, all in one Actor.
• 📊 Standings mode. Wins, losses, ties, win pct, games back, points for/against, streak.
• 🆚 Scoreboard mode. Real-time game scores, status, home/away teams, venue.
• 📅 Historical seasons. Query any past season by year (e.g. 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
• ⚡ Under 10 seconds. Pure API, no browser, no HTML parsing.
• 🛑 Clean free tier. 10-record preview for free users.

💡 Why it matters: ESPN's standings data is the industry standard reference for North American sports. Instead of manually copying tables or scraping fragile HTML, this Actor gives you clean JSON you can feed directly into spreadsheets, databases, or dashboards.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abbreviation, conference, division, gamesBack, losses, pointsAgainst, pointsFor, results, scrapedAt, season, sport, streak, teamName, ties, winPct, wins. 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: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock all teams and unlimited historical seasons. Create a free account w/ $5 credit

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ESPN Standings Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a sport, dataType, optional season, and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ESPN, The Walt Disney Company, or any sports league mentioned. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data from ESPN's public API endpoints is collected.

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