Sherdog Scraper - UFC & MMA Fight Stats, Records & Events API

Sherdog Scraper - UFC & MMA Fight Stats, Records & Events API

Scrape complete MMA records from Sherdog by fighter, by name, or by event card. Every bout comes with the opponent, result, method, round, finish time, and the referee where Sherdog lists one; every fighter comes with the full career record and the win/loss breakdown by KO, submission, and decision. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

There is no official Sherdog API. The Fight Finder is the sport's most complete public record — every promotion, not just the UFC — and it exists only as HTML. This reads those pages directly and returns each bout in one fixed schema.

Who uses it	What they scrape Sherdog for
MMA analytics and modelling	Finish rates, method distributions, and round-length features across a whole division
Betting and odds shops	Both fighters' complete records the moment a card is announced
Sports media and stat sites	Fighter pages and card previews that stay current without manual entry
Fantasy MMA products	A full event card, upcoming bouts included, in a single run
Gyms, managers, matchmakers	Opponent history, activity, and how a prospect's wins actually came

What it does

This Actor collects MMA data by fighter URL, fighter name, event URL, or by browsing Sherdog's Fight Finder by division and gym, and returns each result as a flat row. Two shapes, chosen with one setting:

🥊 Fights — one row per bout: opponent, result, method and detail, round, time in seconds, event, ISO date, and the referee where one is on record.

👤 Fighter profiles — one row per fighter: career record with draws and no contests, plus wins and losses broken out by KO, submission, decision, and other. draws and noContests appear only for fighters who have them.

Every run also gives you:

• 📅 Event cards in full: main event and every undercard bout, with weight class, card position, and title-fight flag.
• 🔮 Upcoming bouts: announced fights come back with result: "upcoming" and empty method fields, never invented results.
• 🧬 Parsed methods: "TKO (Spinning Back Kick and Punches)" splits into method and methodDetail, so you can group by finish type without string surgery.
• 🥋 Amateur records: tagged fightType: "amateur" and switchable off, so they never contaminate a pro-record analysis.
• 📇 Bio and gym data: nationality, birthplace, birth date, height and weight in both unit systems, weight class, and every gym the fighter is listed with.
• 🔎 Browse by division and gym: weightClass and association filter a name search, or on their own turn Fight Finder into a directory — every heavyweight, or the whole American Top Team roster.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or stream from the API.

What you can do with Sherdog data

📊 Model finishes, not just wins.

Pull a division's fighters and read how each win actually came — KO, submission, or decision — with the round and the second it ended.

🎯 Prep a card in one run.

Feed an event URL and get every bout on the card, with weight classes, card positions, and title-fight flags before the broadcast opens.

📈 Track a prospect's activity.

A fighter's full history with ISO dates shows layoffs, step-ups in competition, and who they actually beat.

🧠 Build MMA datasets.

Thousands of bouts with consistent method, round, and time fields make a clean corpus for prediction models.

Why choose this scraper

What you get
Three inputs, one run	Fighter URLs, fighter names, and event URLs together, in one fixed schema.
Beyond the UFC	Sherdog records every promotion — ONE, PFL, RIZIN, LFA, Oktagon, Shooto, ACA, and the regional shows the UFC-only databases never touch.
Methods already split	method and methodDetail as separate fields, plus timeSeconds alongside 4:29, plus a methodCategory bucket and an isFinish flag you can filter and count on.
Career breakdowns	Wins and losses by KO, submission, decision, and other — computed by Sherdog, read verbatim. A breakdown field is absent when Sherdog renders no bar for it, which means zero.
Rates and streaks, precomputed	finishRate, koRate, submissionRate, winRate, currentStreak, debutDate and daysSinceLastFight — the numbers you would otherwise write a script to derive.
Career sequence per bout	fightNumber and daysSincePreviousFight on every row, so a layoff or a debut is a column and not a join.
Venue split into columns	venue, city, region and country instead of one comma-joined string.
Filters that cut the bill	Date range, result, method, promotion, title fights and finishes. Filtered rows are never saved and never charged.
Upcoming fights included	Announced bouts on both fighter profiles and event cards.
Honest empties	A missing referee or weight class is absent, never a guessed value.
Four export formats	CSV, JSON, Excel, and XML, from the dashboard or the API.

How it compares

There is no other Sherdog scraper on Apify — the MMA actors in the Store are built on UFC sources. That matters when the fight you need is from Bellator, PFL, KSW or a regional card: those records exist on Sherdog and mostly not on the alternatives.

The competitor columns below reflect what each Actor's own public listing states, not a test run of it.

Feature	ParseForge	crawlerbros	lemur	jenko_systems	solidcode
Promotions covered	Every promotion Sherdog records	UFC, via ESPN's API	UFC	UFC, Bellator, PFL, Invicta, Rizin	UFC
Live or historical	Live, including announced future bouts	Live	Live	Historical set, 11,720 fights	Live
Target one exact fighter or event by URL	Yes, resolved by numeric id	Search and browse	API endpoints	Fixed dataset	Not stated
Whole event card, main plus undercard	Yes, with card order	Not stated	Yes	Historical fights	Yes
Amateur records	Yes, tagged separately	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Method split into type, detail and timeSeconds	Yes	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Rates and streaks computed for you	finishRate, koRate, winRate, currentStreak, daysSinceLastFight	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Career position on every bout	fightNumber and daysSincePreviousFight	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Filter before you pay	Date, result, method, promotion, title fights, finishes	Not stated	Not stated	Fixed dataset	Not stated
Price per result	$0.025	$0.005	$0.055	$0.001	$0.036

If you only ever need UFC, the cheaper UFC-specific actors will serve you well — including our own UFCStats Fighter Profile & Fight History Scraper. Come here when the promotion is not the UFC, or when you need a named card pulled end to end.

What a fight looks like

Every bout returns as one flat JSON row. Here is a real record, unedited:

{
  "fighter": "Jon Jones",
  "fighterUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944",
  "fighterId": "27944",
  "fighterRecord": "28-1-0",
  "opponent": "Stipe Miocic",
  "opponentUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Stipe-Miocic-39537",
  "opponentId": "39537",
  "opponentRecord": "20-5-0",
  "result": "win",
  "fightType": "pro",
  "eventName": "UFC 309 - Jones vs. Miocic",
  "eventUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-309-Jones-vs-Miocic-103896",
  "eventId": "103896",
  "eventDate": "2024-11-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "organization": "Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)",
  "location": "Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States",
  "weightClass": "Heavyweight",
  "matchNumber": 12,
  "isMainEvent": true,
  "isTitleFight": true,
  "method": "TKO",
  "methodDetail": "Spinning Back Kick and Punches",
  "referee": "Herb Dean",
  "refereeUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/referee/Herb-Dean-5",
  "round": 3,
  "time": "4:29",
  "timeSeconds": 269,
  "source": "event",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T18:59:53.321Z"
}

And a fighter profile:

{
  "fighterId": "27944",
  "name": "Jon Jones",
  "nickname": "Bones",
  "nationality": "United States",
  "birthplace": "Rochester, New York",
  "birthDate": "1987-07-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "age": 39,
  "height": "6'4\"",
  "heightCm": 193.04,
  "weight": "238 lbs",
  "weightKg": 107.95,
  "weightClass": "Heavyweight",
  "association": "Jackson-Wink MMA",
  "wins": 28,
  "losses": 1,
  "noContests": 1,
  "totalFights": 30,
  "winsByKo": 11,
  "winsBySubmission": 7,
  "winsByDecision": 10,
  "winsByOther": 0,
  "lossesByKo": 0,
  "lossesBySubmission": 0,
  "lossesByDecision": 0,
  "lossesByOther": 1,
  "proFightCount": 30,
  "imageUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/image_crop/200/300/_images/fighter/20220331052526_Jon_Jones_ff.JPG",
  "associationUrl": "https://www.sherdog.com/stats/fightfinder?association=Jackson-Wink+MMA",
  "url": "https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T18:59:53.321Z"
}

Not every field exists on every source, because Sherdog does not publish the same things everywhere. Measured on real runs:

Field	Fighter history rows	Event card rows
opponent, result, method, methodDetail, round, time, eventDate	100%	100%
referee	~83% — older and regional bouts often have none on record	100%
weightClass, organization, location, matchNumber, isTitleFight	not in Sherdog's history table	100%
fighterRecord, opponentRecord	not in Sherdog's history table	main event always; undercard only on upcoming cards

That last row is Sherdog's own layout: a finished undercard shows each fighter's result where an upcoming one shows their record. Feed the eventUrl values from a history run back in as eventUrls when you need the card-level fields.

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from four source types, alone or together: fighter URLs, fighter names, event URLs, and a weightClass/association browse. resultType decides whether you get bouts or profiles. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A fighter's complete record:

{ "fighterUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944"], "resultType": "fights", "maxItems": 100 }

A whole event card, main event and undercard:

{ "eventUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-309-Jones-vs-Miocic-103896"], "resultType": "fights" }

Career records for every fighter on a card, plus one fighter by name:

{ "fighterNames": ["Amanda Nunes"], "eventUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-309-Jones-vs-Miocic-103896"], "resultType": "fighters", "maxItems": 50 }

Professional bouts only, amateur record excluded:

{ "fighterUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Trent-Miller-382805"], "includeAmateurFights": false }

Browse a whole roster with no fighter named at all — every heavyweight listed with American Top Team:

{ "weightClass": "Heavyweight", "association": "American Top Team", "resultType": "fighters", "maxItems": 100 }

Sherdog matches association partially, so American Top Team also returns its affiliates, and it matches any gym a fighter is listed with. A fighter whose primary association reads Gym 23 can still belong in an American Top Team run — the full list is in associations.

Fighter URLs beat fighter names. Sherdog identifies a fighter by the number at the end of the URL and ignores the name in it — /fighter/Nick-Diaz-9 serves whoever fighter 9 actually is. Names are resolved through Fight Finder, which matches on the surname only and returns 20 alphabetically ordered fighters per page, so a common surname costs extra requests. Only an exact full-name match is accepted; an ambiguous name is reported as a warning rather than resolved to the wrong fighter.

Narrow the run with filters

Every filter runs on rows the Actor already extracted, so none of them costs an extra request — and because a filtered row is never saved, it is never charged either. Filtering is the cheapest way to run this Actor.

Every UFC title fight on a card:

{ "eventUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/events/UFC-309-Jones-vs-Miocic-103896"], "titleFightsOnly": true }

One fighter's finishes since 2015, UFC only:

{ "fighterUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944"], "organizationFilter": "UFC", "dateFrom": "2015-01-01", "finishesOnly": true }

Only submission wins, whatever the promotion:

{ "fighterUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944"], "resultFilter": ["win"], "methodFilter": ["Submission"] }

Filter	What it keeps
dateFrom / dateTo	Bouts inside a YYYY-MM-DD range, on event date.
resultFilter	win, loss, draw, no contest, upcoming.
methodFilter	KO/TKO, Submission, Decision, Other.
organizationFilter	Partial, case-insensitive promotion match. Falls back to the event name, which is where the promotion appears in a fighter's history.
titleFightsOnly	Needs at least one eventUrl — Sherdog marks title bouts on event cards only.
finishesOnly	KO/TKO and submissions; drops decisions, DQs and no contests.

Two filters depend on data only an event card carries, so asking for them without an eventUrl fails immediately with that reason instead of handing you an empty dataset: titleFightsOnly, and a resultFilter of upcoming alone.

Add the opponent's profile

enrichOpponents fetches every distinct opponent's own Sherdog page and folds their nationality, gym, division, height, weight and career record into the fight row.

{ "fighterUrls": ["https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Jon-Jones-27944"], "enrichOpponents": true, "maxItems": 30 }

A rematch costs one fetch, not two — profiles are cached for the run. A record already on the page is never overwritten: opponentRecord on an event card is the record as of that night, and replacing it with today's would rewrite history, so enrichment only fills the field when it is empty.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.025 per result, dropping to $0.01875 on the Gold tier, plus a $0.05 run-start fee. You pay only for rows written to your dataset.

Rows collected	Approximate cost
100	$2.55
1,000	$25.05
10,000	$250.05

At higher monthly volume the per-row rate steps down through $0.022 and $0.0208 to $0.01875, so 10,000 rows runs about $188 rather than $250. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

The full event list

Every event maps to one unit of work the Actor performs. A plain run — fighter URLs or event URLs, no filters, no enrichment — only ever charges the first two.

Event	Charged when	Price
Actor start	Once per run. This Actor is capped at 1 GB of memory, so it is always one event, never a multiple.	$0.05
Result	Each fight or fighter profile written to your dataset.	$0.025
Fight Finder search	Each 20-result search page read while resolving a name from fighterNames, or browsing a weightClass/association.	$0.005
Opponent profile	Each distinct opponent fetched when enrichOpponents is on.	$0.015

Every event except the start fee follows your Apify plan tier. On Gold that is $0.01875 per result, $0.00375 per Fight Finder search and $0.01125 per opponent profile — a quarter off the prices above.

Three things this list is designed to make true:

• Passing fighter URLs and event URLs costs nothing beyond start and results. The two optional events only fire when you ask for the work that triggers them.
• The search fee has a ceiling you set. maxSearchPages caps the number of Fight Finder pages per name — at the default of 25 that is at most $0.125 for a name, and the search stops early on its own once results sort past the name you asked for.
• Nothing is charged before it exists. A result is charged as it is written, a search page after it is read, an opponent profile once it is in hand. A failed request, a Sherdog "Page Not Found" and a row your filters dropped are all free.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 100 rows as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 100,000 rows per run.

A run is also bounded by its timeout, and the two input styles work at very different speeds. Measured through Apify Proxy at the default 900-second timeout: about 1,600 fight rows when you pass fighter or event URLs, because one page yields around 20 bouts, and about 230 fighter profiles when you browse a weight class, because that path costs one request per fighter. Raise the timeout in the run options for a bigger job, or split it across scheduled runs.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Sherdog Scraper.
3. Enter fighterUrls, fighterNames, or eventUrls, pick a resultType, add any filters, and click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to MMA records through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/sherdog-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language:

• "Pull Jon Jones's full Sherdog record and tell me how many wins came by submission."
• "Get the whole UFC 309 card with methods and rounds, and list every finish inside two rounds."
• "Look up Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko and compare their KO rates."

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor to start:

Use the Apify Actor "parseforge/sherdog-scraper" to collect MMA data from Sherdog. Input: { "fighterUrls": ["<sherdog fighter URL>"], "fighterNames": ["<full name>"], "eventUrls": ["<sherdog event URL>"], "resultType": "<fights|fighters>", "maxItems": <n> }. With resultType "fights" it returns one row per bout with opponent, result, method and methodDetail, referee, round, timeSeconds, eventName, and ISO eventDate. With "fighters" it returns one row per fighter with the career record including draws and no contests, plus wins and losses broken out by KO, submission, and decision. Prefer fighter URLs over names, since Sherdog identifies fighters by the numeric id at the end of the URL. Call it with the ApifyClient and my APIFY_TOKEN.

Troubleshooting

Why was my fighter URL skipped?

Sherdog serves a "Page Not Found" page with an HTTP 200 status, so a bad id looks like a successful response. The Actor detects it and skips the source with a warning instead of returning an empty dataset. Check the number at the end of the URL — that is the only part Sherdog reads.

Why couldn't it find my fighter by name?

Only exact full-name matches are accepted, and Fight Finder searches by surname alone. If the surname is common the fighter may sit past the pages searched — raise maxSearchPages, or pass the fighter's URL instead.

Why fewer rows than I asked for?

maxItems is a ceiling, not a target. A fighter with 12 bouts returns 12 rows. Add more fighters or events to fill a larger run.

Why is weightClass, referee, or fighterRecord empty?

Sherdog's fight-history table does not publish weight class, organization, or card position — only event cards do. Referees are missing on many older and regional bouts. And on a finished card, the undercard shows each fighter's result where an upcoming card shows their record, so fighterRecord fills for the main event but not for past undercard bouts. That is the source's real state, not a parsing failure.

Why does a fighter from an association run show a different gym?

Sherdog lists fighters under every gym they are associated with, and the filter matches any of them. association holds the primary gym Sherdog shows first; associations holds all of them, and that is where the gym you filtered on will be.

Why is a breakdown field like winsByOther missing?

Sherdog only renders a bar for a category a fighter actually has. Verified across profiles: the categories present always add up exactly to wins and losses, so a missing breakdown field is a real zero.

Why do upcoming fights have no method or round?

They have not happened yet. Announced bouts return result: "upcoming" with those fields absent rather than filled with placeholders.

Why is the run slow?

Each fighter and each event is one page request, and name lookups add a search page or more each. Pass URLs instead of names, and split large jobs into scheduled runs.

A field stopped filling.

Sherdog changed its page markup. Email us with your run ID so we can update the parser.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a Sherdog account or API key?	No. Sherdog has no public API. This reads public pages, so there is nothing to register or authenticate.
Does it cover promotions other than the UFC?	Yes. Sherdog records ONE, PFL, RIZIN, LFA, Oktagon, Shooto, ACA, and regional shows worldwide, and all of them come through the same schema.
Can I get a fighter's complete career, not just recent fights?	Yes. The full history table is returned, newest bout first, pro and amateur.
Does it handle upcoming events?	Yes. Upcoming cards return with result: "upcoming", and an announced next bout appears on the fighter profile.
Can I look fighters up by name?	Yes, with exact full-name matching. Fighter URLs are faster and unambiguous — prefer them when you have them.
What is the difference between the two result types?	fights gives one row per bout. fighters gives one row per fighter with the career record and method breakdown.
Does it scrape referees, judges, or scorecards?	Referee yes, on every bout that lists one. Judges and scorecards are not part of Sherdog's public tables.
How many rows per run?	Free plan: 100. Paid: up to 100,000, bounded by how many bouts your sources actually contain and by the run timeout — at the default 900 seconds that is roughly 1,600 fight rows from URLs, or 230 profiles when browsing a weight class.
Are the records official?	They are Sherdog's records, the sport's most widely cited public database. Sherdog is not a sanctioning body.
Is this an official Sherdog product?	No. It is unofficial and reads only public Sherdog data.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sherdog.com or its owners. It collects only publicly available Sherdog data. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Sherdog's terms and applicable laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Fighter records are public sporting results; do not use this data to identify, profile, or target individuals.