🏈 Pro Football Reference Stats Scraper

🚀 Export NFL player statistics in seconds. Get passing, rushing, receiving, and defense stats for any season from pro-football-reference.com - no account needed.

The Pro Football Reference Stats Scraper extracts NFL player statistics from pro-football-reference.com, the definitive source for professional football historical data. Choose a season and stat type to export complete player stat lines including yards, touchdowns, games played, and more.

Coverage spans every NFL season, all 32 teams, and four stat categories: passing, rushing, receiving, and defense. Each record includes the player name, team, position, game counts, and all relevant statistics for the chosen category.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	Why
Sports analysts	Build season-over-season performance models
Fantasy football players	Research player stats and trends
Data journalists	Power articles with real NFL data
Sports bettors	Inform player prop research
Researchers	Study NFL performance patterns
Developers	Build NFL stats apps and dashboards

📋 What the Pro Football Reference Scraper does

• Scrapes NFL player statistics from pro-football-reference.com for any season
• Supports four stat categories: passing, rushing, receiving, and defense
• Returns all players ranked by the selected stat category for that season
• Automatically retrieves the most recent archived snapshot for complete end-of-season data
• Extracts player URLs for deep-linking to individual player pages
• Free users get a 10-item preview; paid users can extract up to 1,000,000 records

💡 Why it matters: Pro Football Reference is the gold standard for NFL historical data. This scraper gives you programmatic access to decades of player statistics without manual copy-paste.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: gamesPlayed, gamesStarted, interceptions, passingTDs, passingYards, playerId, playerName, playerUrl, position, receivingTDs, receivingYards, rushingTDs, rushingYards, sacks, scrapedAt, season, statType, tackles, team. All 19 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account on Apify (comes with $5 free credit)
2. Open the Pro Football Reference Stats Scraper
3. Set your season (e.g. 2024) and statType (e.g. passing)
4. Set maxItems to control how many records you want
5. Click Start and wait a few seconds
6. Download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor accesses publicly available data from pro-football-reference.com via archived snapshots. Use responsibly and in accordance with the website terms of service. ParseForge is not affiliated with Sports Reference LLC or pro-football-reference.com.

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